Projects

• Age and the Body

  (University of the Witwatersrand, Wiser)

• Community Commons

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (University College London)

  (King's College London)

• CHCI Medical Humanities Institute (Dartmouth)

  (Dartmouth College)

biography

Catherine Burns (PI), PhD, teaches and conducts research at the WITS Institute of Social and Economic Research (WiSER), University of the Witwatersrand. She is an historian with a focus on modern African history, medical and health history, the history and ethnography of reproduction and sex, ethics in medical research, and the history of gender in Southern Africa.>

research interests

Medical humanities, history of medicine, ageing, sex, transplant