Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine

In this list of recently completed dissertations the highlighted number uniquely identifies each thesis and is your key to further information about it. Abstracts can be viewed in Dissertation Abstracts, issued monthly and available at many libraries. Some libraries provide free access to dissertations and abstracts on line, including the capacity to download them in full. Most dissertations can also be ordered via Bell and Howell Information and Learning by calling 800–521–0600 or writing to 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48106. Dissertations can be ordered online through the Bell and Howell website at http://www.umi.com.

Ruth Duncan Abbott. A comparison of health beliefs of Florence Nightingale and Ellen G. White and the incorporation of them into their respective schools of nursing. Andrews University, 2001, 306 pages. 3007044

Mary Elizabeth Adams. Female fear: The body, gender, and the burdens of beauty. The University of Oklahoma, 2001, 172 pages. 3004883

Heather Ann Addison. Hollywood and the reducing craze of the 1920s. University of Kansas, 2001, 303 pages. 3013476

Julius O. Akeredolu. An analysis of the impact of Nigeria’s health programs on child mortality between 1980 and 1995. Walden University, 2001, 218 pages. 3015986

Joseph Logan Atkinson. The Upper Canadian legal response to the cholera epidemics of 1832 and 1834. University of Ottawa, 2000, 418 pages. NQ58262

Ricardo Buitrago. An intellectual biography Josef Breur: A historical review of his life, contributions and works. Carlos Albizu University, 2001, 66 pages. 3012609

Kathleen Geraghty Burke. From research lab to routine procedure: A case study of the Swan-Ganz catheter, 1965–1980. University of Pennsylvania, 2001, 207 pages. 3003605

Carol R. Byerly. The politics of disease and war: Infectious disease in the United States Army during World War I. University of Colorado at Boulder, 2001, 473 pages. 3005033

Cassandra Marie Cavanaugh. Backwardness and biology: Medicine and power in Russian and Soviet Central Asia, 1868–1934. Columbia University, 2001, 412 pages. 3005697

Greg Lee Drevenstedt. Mortality patterns in the United States since 1960: Essays on migrant mortality, the impact of Medicare, and demographic consequences of cause-specific mortality change. University of Pennsylvania, 2001, 220 pages. 3003622

Maryrose Eannace. Lunatic literature: New York state’s 'The Opal’, 1850–1860. State University of New York at Albany, 2001, 372 pages. 3014378

Carol Ann Farkas. Aesculapia victrix: Fictions about women doctors, 1870–1900. University of Alberta, 2000, 302 pages. NQ59585

Ingrid Galusha Farreras. Before Boulder: Professionalizing clinical psychology, 1896–1949. University of New Hampshire, 2001, 317 pages. 3006134

Karen Pomeroy Flood. Contemplating Corpses: The dead body in American culture, 1870–1920. Harvard University, 2001, 281 pages. 3011371

Jennifer Lauren Foster. Medical regulation and social discipline at the Hopital Royal et Militaire and the Bon Pasteur de Montpellier, 1731–1789. University of Southern California, 2000, 389 pages. 3011900

Allison Marie Garrett. Health Improvements and the national income and product accounts: 1880 to 1940. The University of Chicago, 2001, 57 pages. 3006497

Stephanie Houston Grey. Representing eating disorders in America: The rhetoric, politics and stigma of a modern epidemic. Indiana University, 2001, 387 pages. 3005399

Nat Wayne Hardy. Anatomy of pestilence: The satiric disgust of plague in early modern London (1563–1625). University of Alberta, 2000, 285 pages. NQ59596,

Jennifer Klein Hudak. The social inventors: Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and women’s writing in context. The University of Rochester, 2001, 236 pages. 3005553

David Shumway Jones. Rationalizing Epidemics: Historical accounts of American Indian health disparities. Harvard University, 2001, 698 pages. 3011397

Jennifer Lisa Koslow. Eden’s underbelly: Female reformers and public health in Los Angeles, 1889–1932. University of California, Los Angeles, 2001, 288 pages. 3005989

Mary Ann Krisman-Scott. The room at the end of the hall: Care of the dying, 1945–1976. University of Pennsylvania, 2001, 145 pages. 3003648

Gwynn Kessler. The God of small things: The fetus and its development in Palestinian aggadic literature. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2001, 406 pages. 3011873

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