Renée van der Wiel is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Renée was awarded a Mellon Foundation Medical Humanities Doctoral Fellowship at the Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER). Her doctorate in anthropology was an ethnography of South African medical doctors who produce clinical research over and above their duties as healers and teachers. Prior to that Renee conducted research on breast cancer treatment at a public hospital in Johannesburg as well as international ova donation involving young South African women. She has held posts as a sessional lecturer, writing consultant, curriculum revisor, and undergraduate academic mentor, across University of the Witwatersrand, North-West University, Duke University (Organisation for Tropical Studies), and Varsity College. She has been a research assistant in the fields of sociology, medical history and surgery.