DISSERTATION REVIEWS


Dissertation Reviews ( http://dissertationreviews.org/ ) features
friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished
dissertations, as well as articles on archives and libraries around
the world.

We are proud to announce that the following scholars currently sit on
our Advisory Board for the Science Studies branch:
Jon Agar (University College London); Mario Biagioli (University of
California, Davis); Adrian Johns (University of Chicago); Elizabeth
Lunbeck (Vanderbilt University); Carla Nappi (University of British
Columbia); Gregory Radick (University of Leeds); Suman Seth (Cornell
University); Bruno Strasser (University of Geneva)

The following is a list of the posts related to Science, Medicine and
Technology for January 2013.


[Archives Review, Science Studies] Review of the National Archives
at College Park, Maryland, by BILL RANKIN (Yale University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2105

[Bioethics, Science Studies] TAMARA KAYALI, "The Real Me: Control,
Responsibility and the Self in Depression" (University of Cambridge,
2011), reviewed by Sarah Brown (University of Nottingham)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2317

[Science Studies] ELIZABETH RAMEY, "Agriculture and Class:
Contradictions of Midwestern Family Farms Across the Twentieth
Century" (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2012), reviewed by
Megan Birk (University of Texas Pan American)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2044

[Med Anthro, Science Studies] JENNIFER CUFFE, "An Empirical Study of
Scientists’ Reasoning in the Canadian Regulatory Evaluation of
Traditional, Homeopathic, Herbal, and Other ‘Natural’ Medicines"
(McGill University, 2010), reviewed by Daniel Hollenberg (Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2270

[Science Studies] STINE SLOT GRUMSEN, "Casting for Good Will:
Profession, Trade and Identity in American Dentistry, c. 1910-1950"
(Aarhus University, 2012), reviewed by Elizabeth Mertz (University of
California, San Francisco)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1943

[Print Media, Science Studies] FIONA PETTIT, "Freaks in Late
Nineteenth-Century British Media and Medicine" (University of Exeter,
2012), reviewed by Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Siegen)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2300

[Bioethics] NICOLAE MORAR, "Biotechnologies and Human Nature:
Ethical and Political Challenges" (Purdue University, 2011), reviewed
by Ryan Tonkens (Dalhousie University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2387

[Science Studies, Japan] ELISHEVA PERELMAN, "The Exponent of Breath:
The Role of Foreign Evangelical Organizations in Combating Japan’s
Tuberculosis Epidemic of the Early Twentieth Century" (University of
California, Berkeley, 2011), reviewed by Ruselle Meade (University of
Manchester)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1941

[Archives Review, Science Studies, Japan] "Science for God's Sake".
Review of The Salvation Army Research Room, Tokyo, Japan; Archives of
the Episcopal Church, Austin TX; Salvation Army National Archives and
Research Center, Alexandria VA, by ELISHEVA PERELMAN (Millikin
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1947


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