Dissertation Reviews - April 2013 Posts (Sci/Med/Tech)
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features friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished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 Editors are Leon Rocha and Matthew Melvin-Koushki
(Princeton University).
The following is a list of the posts for April 2013 on
science, medicine and technology.
[Science Studies] Signe Nipper Nielsen, “From the
‘Workshop of Wonders’:
Observing Generation in Danish Medicine, 1650-1800” (University
of Cambridge, 2010), reviewed by Alisha Rankin (Tufts University)
[Bioethics] Mirko Garasic, “Freedom, Consent and Autonomy
in Bioethics:
Justifications for Enforced Medical Treatment and its
Refusal” (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
[LUISS], 2011), reviewed by John Appleby (University of Cambridge)
[Science Studies] Nathan Crowe, “A ‘Fantastical’
Experiment:
Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of
Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970” (University of Minnesota, 2011), reviewed
by Berris Charnley (Griffith University)
[Archives Review] Tom Hulme (University of Leicester),
review of Social Science Resources at the British Library, London, United
Kingdom
[Archives Review, Iran, Islamic Studies] Audrey Truschke
(University of Cambridge), review of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, United
Kingdom
[Talking Shop, Science Studies] Joline Zepcevski
(Minneapolis College of Art and Design), “Computer Science and Unconventional
Archives”
[Med Anthro] Noelle Sullivan, “Negotiating Abundance and
Scarcity:
Health Sector Reform, Development Aid, and Biomedical
Practice in a Tanzanian Hospital” (University of Florida, 2011), reviewed by
Meghan Halley (Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute)
[China, Science Studies] Shellen Wu, “Underground
Empires: German Imperialism and the Introduction of Geology in China,
1860-1919”
(Princeton University, 2010), reviewed by Ying Jia Tan
(Yale University)
[Talking Shop, Bioethics] Alberto Giubilini (Charles
Sturt University, Monash University) and Francesca Minerva (University of
Melbourne), “Bioethics & the New Media”
[Japan, Med Anthro] Kathryn Goldfarb, “Fragile Kinships:
Family Ideologies and Child Welfare in Japan” (University of Chicago, 2012),
reviewed by Allison Alexy (University of Virginia)
[Science Studies, Visual Studies] Geoffrey Belknap,
“‘From a
Photograph’: Photography and the Periodical Print Press
1870-90”
(University of Cambridge, 2011), reviewed by Casper
Andersen (University of Aarhus)
[Science Studies] Berris Charnley, “Agricultural Science,
Plant Breeding and the Emergence of a Mendelian System in Britain, 1880-1930”
(University of Leeds, 2011), reviewed by Nathan Crowe
(Arizona State
University)