Dissertations Received March 2007
Alagona, Peter Spencer. “Transforming conservation: Endangered species, biodiversity, and the political economy of science in California.” University of California--Los Angeles, 2006. 317 pp. 3234336.
Bay, Alexander R. “The politics of disease: Beriberi, barley, and medicine in modern Japan (1700- -1939).” Stanford University, 2006. 284 pp. 3235179.
Bennett, Michael G. “Techne de jure.” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; 2006. 291 pp. 3232600.
Borland, Jennifer Regan. ”Unstable women: Transgression and corporeal experience in twelfth-century visual culture.” Stanford University, 2006. 264 pp. 3235187.
Boughan, Kurt Martin. “Beyond diet, drugs, and surgery: Italian scholastic medical theorists on the animal soul, 1270—1400.” The University of Iowa, 2006. 697 pp. 3229646.
Brigandt, Ingo. “A theory of conceptual advance: Explaining conceptual change in evolutionary, molecular, and evolutionary developmental biology.” University
of Pittsburgh, 2006. 501 pp. 3232758.
Brosnan, Kevin. “Evolutionary theory and the autonomy of ethics.” The University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2006. 130. pp. 3234807.
Carlson, Eric R. “The crisis of violence: Warfare, genetics, and culture in Old English and Old Norse texts.” Purdue University, 2006. 338 pp. 3232155.
Chopra, Rohit. “Mediated visions: Technology and nationalism in India from the colonial era to the Internet age.” University; 2006. 369 pp. 3234008.
Daigle, Jonathan R. “United States realism and the (conceptual) problem of race: Realists and race science from 1877 to 1905.” The University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2006. 370 pp. 3234706.
Erickson, Paul. “The politics of game theory: Mathematics and Cold War culture.” University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2006. 386 pp. 3234838.
Feil, Kiersten. “Evolution and the developmental perspective in medicine: The historical precedent and modern rationale for explaining disorder and normality with evolutionary processes.” The University of Chicago, 2006. 249 pp. 3231392.
Fox, Donna M. “Scientific and technical aspects of a large-scale biological weapons program: Lessons learned from the former Soviet Union's anti-personnel BW program, 1975—1990.” George Mason University, 2006. 201 pp.
Freed, Libbie J. “Conduits of culture and control: Roads, states, and users in French central Africa, 1890—1960.” The University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2006. 236 pp. 3234729.
Gallimore, Richard L., Jr. “Traditionalizing epistemology: Traditional theory of knowledge in a scientific world.” University of Rochester, 2006. 369 pp. 3230294.
Harker, David. “Progress and preservation: Increased unification and the realist's conception of scientific success.” University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006. 218 pp. 3233154.
Hawkins, Julia Nelson.“The poetics of medicine in Augustan epic: Therapoetics after Actium.” Stanford University, 2006. 266 pp. 3235230.
Madsen-Brooks, Leslie. “To study, to control, and to love: Women scientists in American natural history institutions, 1880—1950.” University of California—Davis, 2006. 237 pp. 3236036.
Manning, Gideon. “Descartes' philosophy of biology.” The University of Chicago, 2006. 239 pp. 3231429.
Meadowsong, Zena. “Creating a monster: Myth, machines, and the naturalist invention of modernism.” Stanford University, 2006. 261 pp. 3235286.
Mekios, Constantinos. “Approaching organisms as systems: A critical study of the method of 'systems biology'.” Boston University, 2007. 241 pp. 3232910.
Milam, Erika Lorraine. “Looking for a few good males: Female choice in evolutionary biology, 1915—1975.” The University of Wisconsin—Madison, 2006. 294 pp. 3234794.
Mueller, Paul R. “Marin Mersenne's "Questions Theologiques, Physiques, Morales, et Mathematiques": Agenda and structure, with an annotated translation.” The University of Chicago, 2006. 364 pp. 3231434.
Panofsky, Aaron Leon. “Fielding controversy: The genesis and structure of behavior genetics.” New York University, 2006. 459 pp. 3234171.
Prieto, Andres Ignacio. “Jesuit naturalists: Nature, evangelization, and propaganda in South America, 1588—1676.” University of Connecticut, 2006.226 pp. 3234324.
Stark, Laura Jeanine Morris. “Morality in science: How research is evaluated in the age of human subjects Regulation.” Princeton University, 2006. 290 pp. 3236196.
Stiles, Anne Meredith. “Neurological fictions: Brain science and literary history, 1865—1905.” University of California--Los Angeles, 2006. 390 pp. 3234346.
Val Naval, Paula. “Study, critical edition, translation and commentary of the "Summa supra phisonomiam" by William of Aragon (c.1300).” Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain), 2006. 492 pp. 3235020.
Wooten, Heather Green. “The polio years in Harris and Galveston counties, 1930—1962.” The University of Texas Medical Branch Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2006. 254 pp. 3234208.
Wuthrich, Christian. “Approaching the Planck scale from a generally relativistic point of view: A philosophical appraisal of loop quantum gravity.” University of Pittsburgh, 2006. 238 pp. 3232741.
Yap, Audrey. “Mathematical practice and the philosophy of mathematics.” Stanford University, 2006. 216 pp. 3235383.
Younossi, Obaid. “United States military aircraft engine historical performance and technological trends: An empirical assessment of technological change and implications for R&D Investment.” The George Washington University, 2006. 248 pp. 3230472.
Dissertations compiled by Jonathon Erlen, University of Pittsburgh