Catherine Waldby

rdf:langString Catherine Waldby

rdf:langString Catherine Waldby

rdf:langString Catherine Waldby

rdf:langString Queensland, Australia

rdf:langString Australian National University

rdf:langString AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

rdf:langString Clinical Labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy

rdf:langString Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

rdf:langString Academic, researcher, author

rdf:langString Catherine Waldby FASSA (born 18 September 1957) is an Australian academic, researcher and author. She is the Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and a visiting professor at King's College London. Waldby's research has been focused on social studies of biomedicine and the life sciences. She has written over 50 research articles and seven monographs. Her books include AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (1996), Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (2006) and Clinical Labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy (2014). In 2019, she wrote The Oöcyte Economy: The Changing Meanings of Human Eggs. Waldby is the co-editor of BioSocieties, with Nikolas Rose and Hannah Landecker. In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and in 2018, a member of the College of Experts, European Science Foundation. Her research has been funded by many international and national grants from various organizations including the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Council.