The Expanding Scope of History of Science: Doctoral Dissertations

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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, PhD

University 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, PhD

Rutgers 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, PhD

Queen’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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