Dissertation Reviews - February 2014 Posts
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your window to recently defended and unpublished dissertations, as well as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 following is a list of the February 2014 posts for
the Science Studies, Medical Anthropology, and Bioethics series.
[Science Studies]
Giuditta Parolini, "'Making Sense of Figures:'
Statistics, Computing and Information Technologies in
Agriculture and Biology in Britain, 1920s-1960s," (University of Bologna,
2013), reviewed by Dominic Berry (University of Leeds)
[Science Studies]
Imogen Clarke, "Negotiating Progress: Promoting "Modern"
Physics in Britain, 1900-1940," (University of Manchester, 2012), reviewed
by Vivien Hamilton (Harvey Mudd College)
[Science Studies]
Lisa Ann Robertson, "The Embodied Imagination:
British Romantic Cognitive Science," (University of
Alberta, 2013), reviewed by Markus Iseli (University of Neuchâtel)
[Bioethics] Abbi
Hobbs, "Vaccines Against Vice: A Constructive Technology Assessment of
Immunotherapies for Addiction," (University of York, 2011), reviewed by
Adrian Carter (The University of
Queensland) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6989
[Bioethics, Gender]
Eeva Nyrövaara, "The Feminist Transformation of
Bioethics: An Analysis of Theoretical Perspectives and
Practical Applications in Feminist Bioethics," (University of Helsinki,
2011), reviewed by Alex B. Neitzke (Michigan State University)
[Medical Anthropology]
Emily Freeman, "Older Adults' Experiences of Aging, Sex, and HIV
Infection in Rural Malawi," (London School of Economics and Political
Science, 2012), reviewed by Ramah McKay (University of Minnesota) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7638
[Latin America, Medical Anthropology] Natalie Kimball, "An Open
Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and
Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-2010," (University of Pittsburgh,
2013), reviewed by Molly Geidel (Cornell University)
[Medical Anthropology, Russia] Michelle Parsons, "Death and Freedom in
Post-Soviet Russia: An Ethnography of a Mortality Crisis," (Emory
University, 2011), reviewed by Cassandra Hartblay (University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/6072
[Latin America, Medical Anthropology] Whitney L. Duncan, "The Culture of
Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca," (University of California, San Diego,
2012), reviewed by Jethro Hernandez-Berrones (University of California, San
Francisco)
[Japan, Science Studies]
Kathryn Tanaka, "Through the Hospital Gates:
Hansen's Disease and Modern Japanese Literature,"
(University of Chicago, 2012), reviewed by Mika Endo (Bard College)
[Medical Anthropology, South Asia, Talking Shop] Claire Snell-Rood (University of Kentucky
College of Medicine), "Safety in the Field"
[China, Economic History, Science Studies] Susan K. Mays, "Rapid
Advance: High Technology in the Global Electronic
Age," (Columbia University, 2013), reviewed by Benjamin Gross (Chemical
Heritage
Foundation) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/7574