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In The Bricolage of health and healing in South Africa, Burns explored the absence of an institutionalised, interdisciplinary relationship between the humanities and medicine, and between indigenous health cultures and biomedicine. This is despite the layered and heavily politicised history of South African Health systems throughout the 20th Century, a legacy that continues in various forms in the present.
About Dr Catherine Burns
Dr Catherine Burns is a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). Her work has a particular focus on sexuality, reproduction, and health in an African context. She frequently lectures in the field of public health in Southern Africa, placing this region’s experiences into a global perspective, and was co-convenor of the Body Knowledge Conference at the University of the Witwatersrand in September 2013.
