DISSERTATION REVIEWS

Dissertation Reviews ( http://dissertationreviews.org/ ) is your
window to recently defended and unpublished dissertations, as well as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), the Bioethics series is edited by
Tamara Kayali (Australian National University), and the
Editor-in-Chief is Thomas Mullaney (Stanford University).

The following is a list of the posts for January 2014.


[Bioethics]  Ryan Tonkens, "The Virtues and Vices of Rigging the
Natural Lottery: A Character-Based Evaluation of Prenatal Genetic
Alteration," (York University (Toronto), 2012), reviewed by Tamara
Kayali (Australian National University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6652

[Medical Anthropology, Tibetan/Himalayan]  David M. Citrin, "The
Anatomy of Ephemeral Care: Health, Hunger, and Short-Term Humanitarian
Intervention in Northwest Nepal," (University of Washington, Seattle,
2012), reviewed by Dylan T. Lott (University of Illinois at Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7272

[Science Studies, Southeast Asia]  Evelyn Krache Morris, "Into the
Wind: The Kennedy Administration and the Use of Herbicides in South
Vietnam," (Georgetown University, 2012), reviewed by Ryan Edgington
(Macalaster College) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6360

[Gender, Science Studies]  Beth A. Robertson, "In the Laboratory of
the Spirits: Gender, Embodiment and the Scientific Quest for Life
Beyond the Grave, 1918-1939," (Carleton University, Ottawa, 2013),
reviewed by Gillian McCann (Nipissing University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6666

[Russia, Science Studies]  Maya Haber, "Socialist Realist Science:
Constructing Knowledge about Rural Life in the Soviet Union,
1943-1958," (University of California, Los Angeles, 2013), reviewed by
Kristy Ironside (University of Chicago)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6239

[Bioethics, Iran/Persian, Islamic Studies]  Robert M. Tappan, "Beyond
Clerics and Clinics: Islamic Bioethics and Assisted Reproductive
Technology in Iran," (University of Virginia, 2012), reviewed by Elham
Mireshghi (University of California, Irvine)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6809

[Science Studies]  Benjamin I. Goldberg, "William Harvey, Soul
Searcher: Teleology and Philosophical Anatomy," (University of
Pittsburg, 2012), reviewed by Peter M. Distelzweig (Western Michigan
University) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6835

[China, Gender, Medical Anthropology, Science Studies]  Elsa Fan, "
Opportunistic Infections: The Governance of HIV/AIDS in China,"
(University of California, Irvine, 2012), reviewed by Robert Lorway
(University of Manitoba) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6801

[Latin America, Science Studies]  Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, "The
Greenhouse Gaze: Climate and Culture in Colombia (1808-1928)," (New
York University, 2012), reviewed by Charlotte Rogers (George Mason
University) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6767

[Print/Media, Science Studies]  Jessica Kuskey, "The Body Machinic:
Technology, Labor, and Mechanized Bodies in Victorian Culture,"
(Syracuse University, 2012), reviewed by Sherri Foster (Chesapeake
College)  http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7141

[Bioethics, Science Studies]  Victor Cole, "(Post)Human Flourishing:
Neo-Aristotelian Natural Rights and the Challenge to Human Nature,"
(Monash University, 2011), reviewed by Chris Gyngell (Australian
National University)  http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7147

[Science Studies]  Bradley W. Hart, "British, German, and American
Eugenicists in Transnational Context, c. 1900-1939," (University of
Cambridge, 2011), reviewed by Alison Bateman-House (Columbia
University)  http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7242


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