Literature Dissertations

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Literature Dissertations
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• Renovating Baconianism, reading Bacon
• The fathering of science
• by Dennis Desroches, PhD
• McMaster University, 2001

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• Milton, education, and
• the scientific revolution
• by Angelica Alicia Duran, PhD
• Stanford University, 2000

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Mass Communications Dissertations
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• Millennium bugs and
• weapons of mass fear
• Dialogs between science and
• popular culture in the 1990's
• by Daniel Edward McGee, PhD
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003

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Music Dissertations
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• Rudolph Koenig (1832 - 1901),
• Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894)
• and the birth of modern acoustics
• by David Alexander Pantalony, PhD
• University of Toronto, 2002

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Nursing Dissertations
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• Too many, too few
• The supply, demand, and distribution
• of private duty nurses, 1910 - 1965
• by Jean Catherine Whelan, PhD
• University of Pennsylvania

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• From research lab to routine procedure
• A case study of the
• Swan-Ganz catheter, 1965 - 1980
• by Kathleen Geraghty Burke, PhD
• University of Pennsylvania, 2001

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Philosophy Dissertations
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• The Keplerian Revolution
• Astronomy, physics, and
• the argument for heliocentrism
• by Bryce Hemsley Bennett, PhD
• University of Western Ontario, 1999

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• Progress in mathematics
• Descartes Geometry
• By Aaron John Lercher, PhD
• State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999

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• Galen's necessary causes
• in Medieval Arabic sources
• by R. Coeli Fitzpatrick, PhD
• State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002

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Political Science Dissertations
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• After the body politic
• Thomas Hobbes's scientific
• argument concerning political order
• by Fred Charles Langenegger, PhD
• New School for Social Research, 2000

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• Civilizing science The joint
• construction of science and
• citizenship in modern democracy
• by Mark Burkhard Brown, PhD
• Rutgers The State University
• of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2001

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Psychology, Clinical Dissertations
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• Between science and psychoanalysis
• Aaron T. Beck and the emergence
• of cognitive therapy
• by Rachael I. Rosner, PhD
• York University, 1999

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• Freud's 'Project' and neuroscience
• By Donna Lee Wolfe, PsyD
• Pepperdine University, 2002

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Public Health Dissertations
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• Trial and error in the pursuit of
• public health
• Leicester, 1849 - 1891
• By Scott Edward Roney, PhD
• University of Tennessee, 2002

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Religion Dissertations
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• Illness and healing in the early
• Christian East (Roman Empire)
• by Anne Elizabeth Merideth, PhD
• Princeton University, 1999

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• The monastic health care system
• and the development of the
• hospital in Late Antiquity
• by Andrew Todd Crislip, PhD
• Yale University, 2002

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Social Work Dissertations
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• The accommodation of insanity
• in Canton, China
• 1857 - 1935
• by Peter Paul Szto, PhD
• University of Pennsylvania, 2002

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Sociology Dissertations
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• The expansion of science as social
• authority and institutional structure
• in the world system, 1700 - 1990
• by Evan Auram Schofer, PhD
• Stanford University, 1999

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• The social organization of
• AIDS knowledge
• by Patrick Jude Moynihan, PhD
• State University of New York at
• Stony Brook, 1999

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Theater Dissertations
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• Corpus salubre
• Medicinal cannibalism in
• early modern English culture
• (William Shakespeare,
• Thomas Nashe, John Donne,
• Edmund Spenser)
• by Louise Christine Noble, PhD
• Queens University at Kingston, 2002

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Womens Studies Dissertations
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• Dr. Girl The feminization
• of veterinary medicine
• by Gretchen Emily Klein, PhD
• Georgia State University, 2002

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• Skirting bedlam
• Women's autobiographies
• of mental illness
• By Barbara Holler Smith, PhD
• Rutgers The State University of
• New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2000

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Conclusions

• Scholars from various disciplines researching the
  history of science need to be more actively
  included in the history of science community.
• History of science faculty need to recognize that
  their mentoring roles can extend to a broader
  community of researchers.

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