The Expanding Scope of History of Science Doctoral Dissertations

							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
             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
American Studies
 Dissertations
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
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
Anthropology Dissertations
Bioarchaeological analysis of
      St. Jorgensgard,
 a medieval leprosy hospital in
     Odense, Denmark

by Kirsten Linnea Segal, PhD
 University of Chicago, 2001
 Symmetry, conservation laws,
 and theoretical particle physics
        (1918 - 1979)

by Andris Visvaldis Krumins, PhD
    University of Toronto, 1999
Art History Dissertations
    Cezanne, Lucretius and the late
 nineteenth-century crisis in science

    by Kathryn Anne Tuma, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, 2000
        Sex in the field:
Photography at the Kinsey Institute

by Jennifer Pearson Yamashiro, PhD
      Indiana University, 2002
Economics Dissertations
     From sickness to health:
The twentieth-century development
of the demand for health insurance

by Melissa Anne Thomasson, PhD
   University of Arizona, 1998
   The growth of man-midwifery in
    Philadelphia and its environs,
             1765 - 1848

    by Katherine Okuda Klein, PhD
University of California, Riverside, 2002
Education Dissertations
 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
Geography Dissertations
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
Gerontology Dissertations
       Nursing home ownership
          and public policy:
         An historical analysis

       by K. R. Kaffenberger, PhD
University of Massachusetts Boston,1998
Health Care Management
      Dissertations
      A social history of
     healthcare paradigms

by Denison K. Bullens, Jr., PhD
Fielding Graduate Institute, 2002
Health Sciences, Mental
 Health Dissertations
Mental health policy innovation
    in the American states

by David James Dausey, PhD
    Yale University, 2003
History Dissertations
        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
The origins of civic health care
  in early modern Germany

by Mitchell Love Hammond, PhD
   University of Virginia, 2000
History of Science
  Dissertations
    The national laboratory system
         in the United States,
              1947 - 1962

   by Peter James Westwick, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, 1999
     Principles and problems:
Constructions of theoretical physics
      in Germany, 1890 - 1918

       by Suman Seth, PhD
    Princeton University, 2003
 'Wizards of the micro-waves':
        A history of the
  radio astronomy community

by David Peter Dell Munns, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, 2003
    Science under siege:
 Joseph Henry's Smithsonian,
         1846 - 1865

by Michael Francis Conlin, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-
       Champaign, 1999
Journalism Dissertations
 The watchword is science:
   Portrayal of science in
   'Scientific American',
        1921 - 1986

 by Mary Carol Zuegner, PhD
University of Tennessee, 1999
 Language Rhetoric and
Composition Dissertations
  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
       The audible past:
     Modernity, technology,
and the cultural history of sound

by Jonathan Edward Sterne, PhD
 University of Illinois, at Urbana-
         Champaign, 1999