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 http://www.umi.com.

Afkhami, Amir Arsalan. Iran in the age of epidemics. Nationalism and the struggle for public health: 1889-1926. Yale University, 2003, 508 pages. 3084245

Angiel, Randal. Geography, radioactive contamination and public health: The Albany-Troy Rainout after 50 years. State University of New York at Albany, 2003, 154 pages. 3091499

Becker, Elisa Marielle. Medicine, law, and the state: The emergence of forensic psychiatry in Imperial Russia. University of Pennsylvania, 2003, 398 pages. 3087370

Brancher, Dominique Josiane. Le voile de poppee: Les ambiguites de la pudeur dans le discours medical (1570-1620). The John Hopkins University, 2003, 397 pages.

Bui, Lan Thi Phuong. When the forest became the enemy and the legacy of American herbicidal warfare in Vietnam. Harvard University, 2003, 296 pages. 3092463

Bussell, Mary Elizabeth. Innovation management: The politics of technological development. A case study of the artificial heart program. Columbia University, 2003, 192 pages. 3088303

Daschuk, James William. The political economy of Indian health and disease in the Canadian northwest. The University of Manitoba (Canada), 2002, 511 pages. NQ78020

Delbourgo, James. Electricity, experiment and enlightenment in eighteenth-century North America. Columbia University, 2003, 409 pages. 3088315

Engleman, Elysa Ream. 'The face that haunts me ever': Consumers, retailers, critics, and the branded personality of Lydia E. Pinkham. Boston University, 2003, 281 pages. 3083834

Freidenfelds, Lara. Materializing the modern, middle-class body: Menstruation in the twentieth century United States. Harvard University, 2003, 379 pages. 3091558

Gerkovich, Paulette Rachel. Accessing power with the medicalized body: The paradox and implications of women's health demands. University of Maryland- College Park, 2002, 262 pages. 3080270

Harmon, Rebecca Bouterie. Nursing care in a state hospital, 1950-1965. University of Virginia, 2003, 131 pages. 3083125

Hartman-Ting, Lisa Else. Called to service: The National Catholic School of Social Service and the development of Catholic social work, 1900-1947. Brown University, 2003, 255 pages. 3087270

Hilde, Libra Rose. Worth a dozen men: Women, nursing, and medical care during the American Civil War. Harvard University, 2003, 698 pages. 3091579

Homrighaus, Ruth Ellen. Baby farming: The care of illegitimate children in England, 1860-1943. The University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, 2003, 313 pages. 3086543

Hurst, Brenda Martin. The articulation of Mennonite beliefs about sexuality, 1890-1930. Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2003, 275 pages. 3087208

Jamieson, Patrick Edwin. Changes in United States popular culture portrayal of youth suicide, 1950-2000. University of Pennsylvania, 2003, 244 pages. 3087415

Kuezi-Nke, Marjorie Chisale. The relationship between framing and congressional response: Setting the policy agenda for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome issue, 1981-2000. University of Kentucky, 2003, 168 pages. 3092315

Lewis, Sarah Janvier. Jean Pecquet (1622-1674) and the thoracic duct: The controversy over the circulation of the blood and lymph in seventeenth-century Europe (France). Yale University, 2003, 299 pages. 3084332

MacMahon, Sandra Varney. Tuberculosis, the Navajos, and Western healthcare providers, 1920-1960. The University of New Mexico, 2003, 357 pages. 3085718

Marcus, Nathalie Charron. Creative symptoms: Embodying the imagination in nineteenth-century France. University of Virginia, 2003, 343 pages. 3091132

Markovich, Martin. The rise of HMOs. The Rand Graduate School, 2003, 178 pages. 3086891

McCarthy, Louella Robin. Uncommon practices: Medical women in New South Wales, 1885-1939. University of New South Wales, 2001.

McEwen, Britta Isabelle. Viennese sexual knowledge as science...