The Expanding Scope of History of Science:

Doctoral Dissertations

Jonathon Erlen, Ph.D.History of Medicine Librarian

Health Science Library SystemAssistant Professor

Graduate School of Public HealthUniversity 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, PhDUniversity 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