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 Web site at www.umi.com.

Bernet, Patrick Michael. The cost of one bad apple. The impact of the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation bankruptcy on the United States hospital bond market. Temple University, 2004, 276 pages. 3150981

Buerkle, C. Wesley. The discipline and disciplining of Margaret Sanger: United States birth control rhetoric in the early twentieth century. Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 2004, 366 pages. 3151823

Bump, Jesse Boardman. The lion's gaze: African river blindness from tropical curiosity to international development. Johns Hopkins University, 2005, 421 pages. 3155598

Burke, Chloe Serene. Germs, genes, and dissent: Representing radicalism as disease in American political cartooning, 1877–1919. University of Michigan, 2004, 400 pages. 3150168 [End Page 79]

Craig, Ronald Oreadis. The crack versus cocaine sentencing disparity: A social historical analysis of race-based laws within the United States. Michigan State University, 2004, 91 pages. 3158933

Donahue, Edward J. The history of the Sacred Heart Hospital School of Nursing, Allentown, Pennsylvania. Capella University, 2005, 260 pages. 3151315

Elwick, James M. Compound individuality in Victorian biology, 1830–1872. University of Toronto, 2004, 387 pages. NQ94374

Fynes, Mary Teresa. Personal to political: The changing relationship of the OHA and the state in Ontario. University of Toronto, 2004, 313 pages. NQ94486

Gesundheit, Benjamin. Ethics of medical research and investigation in Jewish sources. University of Toronto, 2004, 257 pages. NQ94455

Gonzalez, Suronda. Immigrants in our midst: Grace Abbott, the Immigrants' Protective League of Chicago, and the new American citizenship, 1908–1924. State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005, 405 pages. 3151766

Grindstaff, Beverly K. Designing the Mensch als Kunstwerk: Kant, hygiene and the aesthetics of health in Wilhelmine Germany. University of California, Los Angeles, 2004, 519 pages. 3154978

Hamer, John Faithful. Turning horror into stories: Popular health reform and the gospel of prevention, 1970–1990. Johns Hopkins University, 2005, 270 pages. 3155621

Hellblom-Thibbin, Christina. Kategorising av barns "problem" i skolans värld: En undersökning av skolhälsovårdsrapporter läsåren 1944/45–1988/89. [Categorization of children's "problems" in the school world. A study of the reports of the School Health Services during the school years 1944/1945 to 1988/1989]. Uppsala Universitet, 2004, 172 pages. C818967

Herb, Rhonda D. Myth, symbol, and archetype: Images of healers and healing in contemporary American fiction. Regent University, 2004, 230 pages. 3153710

Indritz, Mary Eloise Stoikes. Back to the future of pharmacy. University of Minnesota, 2004, 723 pages. 3154049

Keelan, Jennifer E. The Canadian Anti-vaccination Leagues, 1872–1892. University of Toronto, 2004, 298 pages. NQ94375 [End Page 80]

Keirns, Carla Christine. Short of breath: A social and intellectual history of asthma in the United States. University of Pennsylvania, 2004, 358 pages. 3152064

Knight, Lora Lea. Guardians of the race: Scientific eugenics and the woman question in Germany and the United States, 1900–1945. University of Utah, 2004, 289 pages. 3152629

Koford, James Kristian. High technology in the healing arena: A history of the artificial kidney, 1913–1972. University of Utah, 2004, 209 pages. 3155940

Kulba, Tracy. New Woman, new nation: Emily Murphy, the Famous 5 Foundation, and the production of a female citizen. University of Alberta, 2004, 261 pages. NQ95958

Leifer, Sherrill L. Prefers assignments which are creative in nature: Harriet H. Werley, Army Nurse Corps leader, 1941–1964. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2004, 263 pages. 3154294

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