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Associate Professor
Name: Catherine Burns
Location: A Ring 246 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities听 Staff Members
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Tel: 0115593294
Email:听catherineb@uj.ac.za
About Prof Catherine Burns
Catherine Burns is a medical and health historian educated in South Africa and in the USA. She inaugurated the first medical humanities interdisciplinary programme in the Southern African region and has taught undergraduates and supervised many graduate students in humanities and health sciences faculties.
Her interests include: health in the history of African societies; indigenous, missionary, colonial and biomedical health systems; the history of clinician- led research; reproduction and sex (midwifery, obstetrics, contraception, children鈥檚 hospitals, the history of sexuality and gender roles); epidemics in Southern African history; and ethics, inequality, race and power in African health settings. Having been based at Wits 欧美福利100000 for many years Catherine has just taken up an appointment at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg.
From Bantu Gynaecology to the Birthsuit: Medical Science in South Africa
- The Politics of Knowledge in the Biomedical Sciences South/African Perspectives
- 2023-11-07 |听Book chapter
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- CONTRIBUTORS:听Catherine Burns
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