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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friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished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 March 2013 on science,
medicine and technology.


[Science Studies]   SARAH BRIDGER, “Scientists and the Ethics of Cold
War Weapons Research”  (Columbia University, 2011), reviewed by Perrin
Selcer (University of Texas, Austin)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2297

[South Asia, Med Anthro]   HOLLY DONAHUE SINGH, “Aulad: Infertility
and the Meanings of Children in North India”  (University of Virginia,
2011), reviewed by Anindita Majumdar (Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2393

[Med Anthro]   ERICA VAN DER SIJPT, “Ambiguous Ambitions: On Pathways,
Projects, and Pregnancy Interruptions in Cameroon” (University of
Amsterdam, 2011), reviewed by Anita Hannig (Brandeis University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2572

[Bioethics]   KATHLEEN SHANNON DORCY, “Hope as a Discursive Practice
in Cancer Research Decision-Making” (University of Utah, 2011),
reviewed by Jaklin Elliott (University of Adelaide)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2495

[Tibetan Himalayan, Med Anthro]   STEPHAN KLOOS, “Tibetan Medicine in
Exile: The Ethics, Politics and Science of Cultural Survival”
(University of California, Berkeley, 2010), reviewed by Theresia Hofer
(University of Oslo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2282

[China, Science Studies]   NICOLE BARNES, “Protecting the National
Body: Gender and Public Health in Southwest China during the War with
Japan, 1937-1945” (University of California, Irvine, 2012), reviewed
by M. Colette Plum (Johns Hopkins University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2415

[Med Anthro]   ANITA HANNIG, “The Gift of Cure: Childbirth Injuries,
Clinical Structures, and Religious Subjects in Ethiopia” (University
of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Erica van der Sijpt (University of
Amsterdam)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2650

[Chinese Lit, Science Studies]   NATHANIEL ISAACSON, “Colonial
Modernities and Chinese Science Fiction” (University of California,
Los Angeles, 2011), reviewed by Paola Iovene (University of Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2458

[China, Science Studies]   DANIEL ASEN, “Dead Bodies and Forensic
Science: Cultures of Expertise in China, 1800-1949” (Columbia
University, 2012), reviewed by Fabien Simonis (Independent scholar)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2239

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   STANISLAVA KOLKOVÁ
(Herder-Institut in Marburg), review of the Slovak National Archive,
the Archive of the Comenius University, and the Central Archive of the
Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2345

[Bioethics, Science Studies]   NICHOLAS ANDERSON, “Creatures of
Artifice: Rodney Brooks and the Bioethics of Animated Machines”
(Ryerson University, 2011), reviewed by Keith Abney (California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2742

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   BILL RANKIN (Yale University),
review of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Archives, Montreal, Canada
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2047

[Med Anthro]   MOHAMMED RASHED, “Subjectivity, Society and the
Experts: Discourses of Madness in the Western Desert of Egypt”
(University College London, 2012), reviewed by Sherine Hamdy (Brown
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2842

[Iran, Islamic Studies, Science Studies]   ALIREZA DOOSTDAR,
“Fantasies of Reason: Science, Superstition, and the Supernatural in
Iran” (Harvard University, 2012), reviewed by Emilio Spadola (Colgate
University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2908


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