I’m a medical doctor and anthropologist who conducts ethnographic research at the intersection of Clinical Medicine, Medical Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies. A graduate from the Institute for European Ethnology, I currently work as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine & Science Studies, University of Lübeck. As part of a multidisciplinary team I investigate the Meanings and Practices of non-invasive Prenatal Genetic Diagnostics in Germany and Israel. Previously, I worked at the Department of Pediatrics of Charité University Medical Centre in Berlin and at CERMES3 – The Research Centre on Medicine, Science, Mental Health and Society in Paris.
Since 2006 I am conducting a longterm ethnographic study on the „Practices of everyday life with a chronic illness“ in collaboration with a community living and working with cystic fibrosis. In other projects I looked at the entanglements of clinical and scientific work in the negotiations around the emerging diagnostic label „at-risk mental state“ in french- and germanspeaking societies, and the Negotiations of agency and deservingness between ‘improper users’, medical staff and diagnostic infrastructure in the Emergency Department.
Contact: reinsch@imgwf.uni-luebeck.de
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Publications
2021
Decision-making about non-invasive prenatal testing: women’s moral reasoning in the absence of a risk of miscarriage in Germany Journal Article
In: New Genetics and Society, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 199-215 , 2021.
2020
2019
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
2018
The Ecology of Care in Cystic Fibrosis. Identification, decision making and learning in a community living and working with a rare chronic illness Journal Article
In: Curare – Journal of Medical Anthropology, vol. 41, no. 1+2, pp. 111-129, 2018.
2016
When Care Strikes Back: Some Strategies and Tactics for Dealing with Ambivalence of Visibility in Chronic Illness Journal Article
In: Irish Journal of Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 82–90, 2016.