Dr. Julia Rehsmann
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Dr. Julia Rehsmann Post-Doc
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Address
Berner Fachhochschule
School of Health Professions
Fachbereich Pflege
Murtenstrasse 10
3008 Bern
Research
Specialisations
Palliative Care
Liver transplants
Temporality and waiting
Gender
Tinkering and improvisation
Hospital research
CV
Biography
- Julia Rehsmann is a social anthropologist working on issues around temporality, technology and materiality in the context of palliative care and transplantation medicine. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Health Professions at the Bern University of Applied Sciences BFH, conducting ethnographic research on palliative care in Switzerland in the interdisciplinary SNF project "Settings of Dying" (project no. 188869) and a research associate at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. She conducted the research for her dissertation as part of the SNF-funded project "Intimate Uncertainties" (project no. 49368) and was a Doc.Mobility fellowship at the University of Liverpool. In addition to her research at the BFH and her academic work at the University of Bern, Julia teaches courses in medical anthropology at the University of Lucerne.
Projects
Other projects
Sterbesettings (SNF grant no.188869), in Kooperation mit BFH HKB und ZHdK - Postdoc
The Liver's Time: Temporality and Precarity in Liver Transplant Medicine (SNF Doc.Mobility grant no.175223) - Gesuchstellerin
Intimate Uncertainties: Precarious Life and Moral Economy Across European Borders (SNF grant no.149368) - Doktorandin
Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Rehsmann, J. (2021): Food for (Students’) Thought: Graphic Novels in der medizinanthropologischen Lehre. In Curare – Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie.