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friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished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. The Science Studies and Medical Anthropology series are
edited by Leon Rocha (University of Cambridge), and the Bioethics
series is edited by Tamara Kayali (Dalhousie University). The
Editor-in-Chief is Thomas Mullaney (Stanford University), and the
Managing Editor is Leon Rocha.

The following is a list of the posts for February 2013 on science,
medicine and technology.

[Science Studies]   SUSANNAH GIBSON, “The Pursuit of Nature: Defining
Natural Histories in Eighteenth-Century Britain” (University of
Cambridge, 2011), reviewed by Sarah Easterby-Smith (University of St
Andrews)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2275

[Science Studies]   JAN SURMAN, “Habsburg Universities 1848-1918:
Biography of a Space” (University of Vienna, 2012), reviewed by
Deborah Coen (Barnard College, Columbia University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2224

[Latin America, Med Anthro]   LAUREN WYNNE, “Practices of Care: Food
and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatan” (University of Chicago,
2012), reviewed by Elizabeth Fitting (Dalhousie University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2332

[Russia, Science Studies]   BENJAMIN ZAJICEK, “Scientific Psychiatry
in Stalin’s Soviet Union: The Politics of Modern Medicine and the
Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’ Psychiatry, 1939-1953” (University of
Chicago, 2009), reviewed by Simon Pawley (University College London)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2315

[Islamic Studies, Science Studies]   MATTHEW MELVIN-KOUSHKI, “The
Quest for a Universal Science: The Occult Philosophy of Sa’in al-Din
Turka Isfahani (1369-1432) and Intellectual Millenarianism in Early
Timurid Iran” (Yale University, 2012), reviewed by A. Azfar Moin
(Southern Methodist University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2426

[Bioethics]   SILVIA CAMPORESI, “The Ethical Foundations of Clinical
Research: Shifting the Paradigm of Participation. The Case of Phase 0
Cancer Trials” (European School of Molecular Medicine and University
of Milan, 2011), reviewed by Mirko Garasic (Monash University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2450

[Science Studies, Visual Studies]   ROBERT STERNBERG, “Discovery as
Invention: A Constructivist Alternative to the Classic Documentary”
(University of Westminster, 2010), reviewed by Annamaria Carusi
(University of Copenhagen)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2234

[Med Anthro]   MEGHAN HALLEY, “Negotiating Sexuality: Adolescent
Initiation Rituals and Cultural Change in Rural Southern Tanzania”
(Case Western Reserve University, 2012), reviewed by Susi Keefe (St.
Olaf College)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2403

[Science Studies]   ELIZABETH JOHNSON, “Reanimating Bios: Biomimetic
Science and Empire” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed by
Sakari Tamminen (University of Helsinki)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2203

[Tibetan Himalayan, Med Anthro]   THERESIA HOFER, “Tibetan Medicine on
the Margins: Twentieth Century Transformations of the Traditions of
Sowa Rigpa in Central Tibet” (University College London, 2011),
reviewed by Stephan Kloos (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2280

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   KATHARINA KREUDER-SONNEN
(University of Giessen), review of the State Archive of Lviv Oblast
and the Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv, Lviv,
Ukraine
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2294

[Archives Review, China, Science Studies]   YUBIN SHEN (Georgetown
University), review of the National Library of Medicine (NLM),
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2420

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   CHELSEA MEDLOCK (Oklahoma State
University), review of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals Archive, Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2288

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