Dissertation Reviews - January 2014 Posts (Science Studies, Medical Anthropology, Bioethics)
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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)
[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)
[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)
[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)
[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)
[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
[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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