Literature Dissertations

Renovating Baconianism, reading Bacon:

The fathering of science

by Dennis Desroches, PhD

McMaster University, 2001

Milton, education, and

the scientific revolution

by Angelica Alicia Duran, PhD

Stanford University, 2000

Mass Communications Dissertations

Millennium bugs and weapons of mass fear:

Dialogs between science and popular culture in the 1990's

by Daniel Edward McGee, PhDUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, 2003

Music Dissertations

Rudolph Koenig (1832 - 1901),

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 - 1894)

and the birth of modern acoustics

by David Alexander Pantalony, PhD

University of Toronto, 2002

Nursing Dissertations

Too many, too few:

The supply, demand, and distribution

of private duty nurses, 1910 - 1965

by Jean Catherine Whelan, PhD

University of Pennsylvania

From research lab to routine procedure:

A case study of the

Swan-Ganz catheter, 1965 - 1980

by Kathleen Geraghty Burke, PhD

University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Philosophy Dissertations

The Keplerian Revolution:

Astronomy, physics, and

the argument for heliocentrism

by Bryce Hemsley Bennett, PhD

University of Western Ontario, 1999

Progress in mathematics:

Descartes’ ‘Geometry’

By Aaron John Lercher, PhD

State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999

Galen's necessary causes

in Medieval Arabic sources

by R. Coeli Fitzpatrick, PhD

State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002

Political Science Dissertations

After the body politic:

Thomas Hobbes's scientific

argument concerning political order

by Fred Charles Langenegger, PhD

New School for Social Research, 2000

Civilizing science: The joint construction of science and

citizenship in modern democracy

by Mark Burkhard Brown, PhDRutgers The State University

of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2001

Psychology, Clinical Dissertations

Between science and psychoanalysis:

Aaron T. Beck and the emergence

of cognitive therapy

by Rachael I. Rosner, PhD

York University, 1999

Freud's 'Project' and neuroscience

By Donna Lee Wolfe, PsyD

Pepperdine University, 2002

Public Health Dissertations

Trial and error in the pursuit of

public health:

Leicester, 1849 - 1891

By Scott Edward Roney, PhD

University of Tennessee, 2002

Religion Dissertations

Illness and healing in the early

Christian East (Roman Empire)

by Anne Elizabeth Merideth, PhD

Princeton University, 1999

The monastic health care system

and the development of the

hospital in Late Antiquity

by Andrew Todd Crislip, PhD

Yale University, 2002

Social Work Dissertations

The accommodation of insanity

in Canton, China:

1857 - 1935

by Peter Paul Szto, PhD

University of Pennsylvania, 2002

Sociology Dissertations

The expansion of science as social

authority and institutional structure

in the world system, 1700 - 1990

by Evan Auram Schofer, PhD

Stanford University, 1999

The social organization of

AIDS knowledge

by Patrick Jude Moynihan, PhD

State University of New York at

Stony Brook, 1999

Theater Dissertations

Corpus salubre: Medicinal cannibalism in

early modern English culture (William Shakespeare,

Thomas Nashe, John Donne, Edmund Spenser)

by Louise Christine Noble, PhDQueen’s University at Kingston, 2002

Women’s Studies Dissertations

Dr. Girl: The feminization

of veterinary medicine

by Gretchen Emily Klein, PhD

Georgia State University, 2002

Skirting bedlam:

Women's autobiographies

of mental illness

By Barbara Holler Smith, PhD

Rutgers The State University of

New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2000

Conclusions

• Scholars from various disciplines researching the history of science need to be more actively included in the history of science community.

• History of science faculty need to recognize that their mentoring roles can extend to a broader community of researchers.

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