| Africa's Hidden Histories: everyday literacy and making the self K Barber Indiana University Press, 2006 | 280 | 2006 |
| History making and present day politics: the meaning of collective memory in South Africa HEJ Stolten Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007 | 93 | 2007 |
| ‘A man is a clumsy thing who does not know how to handle a sick person’: aspects of the history of masculinity and race in the shaping of male nursing in South Africa, 1900–1950 C Burns Journal of Southern African Studies 24 (4), 695-717, 1998 | 65 | 1998 |
| Sex lessons from the past? C Burns Agenda 12 (29), 79-91, 1996 | 36 | 1996 |
| Louisa Mvemve: a woman's advice to the public on the cure of various diseases C Burns Kronos: Journal of Cape History 23 (1), 108-134, 1996 | 35 | 1996 |
| Reproductive labors: the politics of women's health in South Africa, 1900-1960 CE Burns Northwestern University, 1995 | 33 | 1995 |
| Controlling birth: Johannesburg, 1920-1960: sex and secrecy C Burns South African historical journal 50 (1), 170-198, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |
| Sexual and reproductive health and rights s on the Millennium Development Goals A Ramkissoon, C Searle, C Burns, M Beksinska South African Health Review 2010 (1), 33-48, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| The Letters of Louisa Mvemve C Burns Africa’s Hidden Histories: everyday literacy and making the self, 78-112, 2006 | 27 | 2006 |
| Epidemiological change and chronic disease in sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives M Vaughan, K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, M Mika UCL Press, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| The hospitalization experience and single-parent families: A time of special vulnerability CE Burns Nursing Clinics of North America 19 (2), 285-293, 1984 | 14 | 1984 |
| A Useable Past: The Search for ‘History in Chords,’ C Burns History making and present day politics: The meaning of collective memory in …, 2007 | 11 | 2007 |
| A commentary on the colloquium Instituting Gender Equality in Schools: Working in an HIV/AIDS Environment C Burns Agenda 17 (53), 6-10, 2002 | 8 | 2002 |
| Writing the history of sex in South Africa C Burns Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research 6, 2012 | 7 | 2012 |
| The active role of the baby in birthing C Burns Exploring Body-Mind Centering: An Anthology of Experience and Method, 21-40, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Book Review: Special Issue of Culture, Health and Sexuality C Burns Sexualities 10 (2), 263-265, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
| Censorship and affection: South African women’s letters during world war two C Burns History, University of Natal Durban, 2000 | 6 | 2000 |
| A long conversation: The Calling of Katie Makanya C Burns, T Ngwenya Agenda 17 (54), 133-140, 2002 | 4 | 2002 |
| Towards a history of hospitalised childbirth in South Africa: a case study C Burns History Department, University of Natal, 2001 | 3 | 2001 |
| 'It chose the beautiful ones....' C Burns South African Journal of Science 116 (3-4), 1-2, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
