[SydPhil] Dissertation Reviews - November 2012 Posts (Bioethics, Science Studies and Medical Anthropology)

[Tamara Kayali]

Hi,

Please find below information about the November series of Dissertation Reviews which may be of interest to fellow members of the SydPhil list.

Thanks,

Tamara


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DISSERTATION REVIEWS


Dissertation Reviews ( http://dissertationreviews.org/ ) features
friendly, non-critical overviews of recently defended and unpublished
dissertations, as well as articles on archives and libraries around the
world. The following is a list of the posts from the Science Studies,
Medical Anthropology and Bioethics series for November 2012.


[Science Studies, Southeast Asia]   Wan Faizah Wan Yusoff, "Malay
Responses to the Promotion of Western Medicine, with Particular
Reference to Women and Child Healthcare in the Federated Malay States,
1920-1939" (SOAS, University of London, 2010), reviewed by Hans Pols
(University of Sydney)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1750

[Science Studies]   Perrin Selcer, "Patterns of Science: Developing
Knowledge for a World Community at UNESCO" (University of Pennsylvania,
2011), reviewed by Poul Duedahl (Aalborg University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1952

[Bioethics]   Nathan Emmerich, "Taking Education Seriously: Developing
Bourdieauan Social Theory in the Context of Teaching and Learning
Medical Ethics in the UK Undergraduate Medical Degree" (Queen's
University Belfast, 2011), reviewed by Sara Donetto (King's College London)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2075

[Science Studies]   Joline Zepcevski, "Complexity and Verification: The
History of Programming as Problem Solving" (University of Minnesota,
2012), reviewed by Christine Aicardi (University College London)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1835

[South Asia, Science Studies]   Michael Slouber, "Garuda Medicine: A
History of Snakebite and Religious Healing in South Asia" (University of
California, Berkeley, 2012), reviewed by Dagmar Wujastyk (Zurich University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2081

[Science Studies, Bioethics]   Kris Weller, "Defining Human: Species,
Sanity, and Legal Subjecthood" (University of California, Santa Cruz,
2010), reviewed by Rui Sa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1779

[Bioethics, Science Studies]   Benjamin Hurlbut, "Experiments in
Democracy: The Science, Politics and Ethics of Human Embryo Research in
the United States, 1978-2007" (Harvard University, 2010), reviewed by
Thomas Banchoff (Georgetown University)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2147

[Science Studies]   Hector Vera, "The Social Life of Measures:
Metrication in the United States and Mexico, 1789-2004" (New School of
Social Research, 2011), reviewed by Miruna Achim (Universidad Autonoma
Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1936

[Science Studies]   Daniel Margocsy, "Commercial Visions: Trading with
Representations of Nature in Early Modern Netherlands" (Harvard
University, 2009), reviewed by Alix Cooper (SUNY-Stony Brook)
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2137

[Talking Shop, Medical Anthro]   Dori Beeler (Durham University),
"Phenomenology and Medical Anthropology"
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2026

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   Kristen Ehrenberger (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), review of the Dresden City Archive
(Stadtarchiv Dresden), Dresden, Germany
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1781

[Archives Review, Science Studies]   Kristen Ehrenberger (University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), review of the German National Library
(Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, DNB), Leipzig, Germany
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1784


For a complete list of ALL November 2012 posts, please visit:
http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/2059


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