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The Expanding Scope of History of Science: Doctoral Dissertations Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. History of Medicine Librarian Health Science Library System Assistant.

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1 The Expanding Scope of History of Science: Doctoral Dissertations Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D. History of Medicine Librarian Health Science Library System Assistant Professor Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh

2 Purposes To identify the numerous disciplines that address the history of science agenda To discuss the value of various research methodologies used with history of science primary materials To examine what expanding the study of history of science means to the future of this discipline

3 American Studies Dissertations

4 Powering the modern body: Theories of energy transfer in American medicine, science, and popular culture, 1875 - 1945 by Carolyn Thomas de la Pena, PhD University of Texas at Austin, 2001

5 A way of life: Saranac Lake and the 'fresh air' cure for tuberculosis by Ellen Damsky, PhD State University of New York at Binghamton, 2003

6 Anthropology Dissertations

7 Bioarchaeological analysis of St. Jorgensgard, a medieval leprosy hospital in Odense, Denmark by Kirsten Linnea Segal, PhD University of Chicago, 2001

8 Symmetry, conservation laws, and theoretical particle physics (1918 - 1979) by Andris Visvaldis Krumins, PhD University of Toronto, 1999

9 Art History Dissertations

10 Cezanne, Lucretius and the late nineteenth-century crisis in science by Kathryn Anne Tuma, PhD University of California, Berkeley, 2000

11 Sex in the field: Photography at the Kinsey Institute by Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro, PhD Indiana University, 2002

12 Economics Dissertations

13 From sickness to health: The twentieth-century development of the demand for health insurance by Melissa Anne Thomasson, PhD University of Arizona, 1998

14 The growth of man-midwifery in Philadelphia and its environs, 1765 - 1848 by Katherine Okuda Klein, PhD University of California, Riverside, 2002

15 Education Dissertations

16 Mathematics is a gentleman's art: Analysis and synthesis in American college geometry teaching, 1790 - 1840 by Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings, PhD Iowa State University, 2000

17 Geography Dissertations

18 Havens for the fashionable and sickly: Society, sickness and space at nineteenth century Southern spring resorts (Virginia, West Virginia) by Margaret Gail Gillespie, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998

19 Gerontology Dissertations

20 Nursing home ownership and public policy: An historical analysis by K. R. Kaffenberger, PhD University of Massachusetts Boston,1998

21 Health Care Management Dissertations

22 A social history of healthcare paradigms by Denison K. Bullens, Jr., PhD Fielding Graduate Institute, 2002

23 Health Sciences, Mental Health Dissertations

24 Mental health policy innovation in the American states by David James Dausey, PhD Yale University, 2003

25 History Dissertations

26 Evolution for John Doe: Scientists, pictures and the public in the decade of the Scopes trial by Constance Areson Clark, PhD University of Colorado at Boulder, 2002

27 The origins of civic health care in early modern Germany by Mitchell Love Hammond, PhD University of Virginia, 2000

28 History of Science Dissertations

29 The national laboratory system in the United States, 1947 - 1962 by Peter James Westwick, PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1999

30 Principles and problems: Constructions of theoretical physics in Germany, 1890 - 1918 by Suman Seth, PhD Princeton University, 2003

31 'Wizards of the micro-waves': A history of the radio astronomy community by David Peter Dell Munns, PhD Johns Hopkins University, 2003

32 Science under siege: Joseph Henry's Smithsonian, 1846 - 1865 by Michael Francis Conlin, PhD University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1999

33 Journalism Dissertations

34 The watchword is science: Portrayal of science in 'Scientific American', 1921 - 1986 by Mary Carol Zuegner, PhD University of Tennessee, 1999

35 Language Rhetoric and Composition Dissertations

36 The enchanted glass reflected: The essay and the ideas of science (Francis Bacon, Paulo Friere) by Deborah Bacon Noonan, PhD University of South Florida, 2002

37 The audible past: Modernity, technology, and the cultural history of sound by Jonathan Edward Sterne, PhD University of Illinois, at Urbana- Champaign, 1999


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