Recent Dissertations in the History of Medicine

In this list of recently completed dissertations, the number in bold type 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.

Sanjam Ahluwalia. Controlling births, policing sexualities: A history of birth control in colonial India, 1877—1946. University of Cincinnati, 2000, 321 pages. 9999183

Stephanie Lynn Reyes Bell. Gendered and racialized constructions of alcoholism in the postwar era. University of California, Irvine, 179 pages. 9993243 (Era in question is 1945–1960.)

Didem Minbay Bernard. The impact of managed care on the hospital industry. Boston University, 2001, 135 pages. 9995589

Monica Calabritto The subject of madness: An analysis of Ariosto’s 'Orlando Furioso’ and Garzoni’s 'L’Hospedale de’ pazzi incurabili’ (Ludvico Ariosto, Tomas Garzoni). City University of New York, 2001, 411 pages. 9997079

Catherine Carstairs. 'Hop heads’ and 'hypes’: Drug use, regulation and resistance in Canada, 1920—1961. University of Toronto, 2000, 332 pages. NQ53757

Jo Anne Jensen Cassell. Fifty years of food habits of college women. Texas Woman’s University, 2000, 179 pages. 9993932 (Covered years are 1958–2000.)

Anne Stacie Canning Colwell. Vision and revision: Demography, maternal and child health development, and the representation of Native women in colonial Tanzania. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001, 618 pages. 9996623

Gillian Margaret Mountford Crane-Kramer. The paleoepidemiological examination of treponemal infection and leprosy in medieval populations from northern Europe (England, Denmark). University of Calgary, 2000, 487 pages. NQ54773

Ivan James Crozier. Writing a book about sex: Havelock Ellis and the construction of medical discourses about homosexuality in England, 1850–1900. University of New South Wales, 2000. (no pages given, no number)

Stephan Michael Curtis. Rural Industry, disease and the struggle for health in nineteenth-century Prussia and Sweden: A comparative study of Iserlohn County and the Sundsvall area. Carnegie-Mellon University, 2000, 485 pages. 3002734

Christine Jones Dial-Benton. Perceptions of African American women about their dietary habits. The Union Institute, 2001, 92 pages. 9997332

Creighton Wright Don. Objects beyond feeling: Race, medicine and sympathy in the romantic period. University of Michigan, 2001, 303 pages. 3000946

Paul Joseph Draus. Consumed by the city: Observing tuberculosis in the 1990s. Loyola University of Chicago, 2001, 328 pages. 3001601

Megan Jane Edwards. Deficiency and disorder: A cultural history of mental deficiency in New South Wales, 1880–1920. University of New South Wales, 2000. (no pages given, no number)

Christine Hayes Farber. Anorexia nervosa as reflective of and configured by modernity: An interpretive, cultural phenomenology. Duquesne University, 166 pages. 9993762

Yanick Farmer. Le concept de destin chez Carl Gustav Jung (French text). Université Laval, 2000, 361 pages. NQ54011

Jennifer Joann Fenne. 'Every woman is a nurse’: Domestic nurses in nineteenth-century English popular literature (Charles Dickens, Mary Augusta Ward). The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000, 225 pages. 9996859

Scott Alan Frickel. Disciplining environmentalism: Opportunity structures, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology, 1941–1976. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000, 297 pages. 9996801

John Osborn Gibbs. 'A word and a blow:’ The cultural construction of the plague in early modern England. Texas A&M University, 2000, 255 pages. 9994242

Susanna Jane Gilbert. 'This long disease, my life’: Literary responses to illness in contemporary America. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000, 267 pages. 3001456 (Study of Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde and Mark O’Brien.)

Hermi Hyacinth Hewitt. Contributions of three nursing leaders to the development of registered nursing education in Jamaica, 1946–1986.The University of Iowa, 2000, 314 pages. 9996106

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