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Identical confusion : the history of twin studies on sexual orientation, 1952-1973

Creator:

Boltseridge, Nathan H.

Abstract:

In 1952, at the height of the McCarthy era, Franz Kallmann, a Jewish psychiatrist and eugenicist who fled the National Socialist regime in Germany, published a study, in which he claimed to have found a one hundred percent concordance rate for homosexuality among forty pairs of identical twins. From this...

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Masters Thesis

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, Harry Brierley, and Cohn Smith, who published a study in 1971, described how they "cured" a homosexual
The light within us : Quaker women in science

Creator:

McCabe, Leslie N.

Abstract:

This thesis explores the role of Quaker women in science in an attempt to arrive at some understanding of what motivated Quaker women in nineteenth century America to go into the sciences. George Fox founded the Society of Friends in the mid-seventeenth century in England and the Quaker theology centered...

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Masters Thesis
Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:

Jolly, J. Christopher

Abstract:

From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...

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Masters Thesis