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  • On his own terms : William James, identity, and the development of American Psychology

    Creator:
    Stoller, Kevin R.
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    William James came of age at a time of great social and intellectual change in the United States. During this period, new professional identities proliferated, and a new culture of professionalization developed with important ramifications for conceptions of individual and social identity. Professionalization was also closely related to key intellectual...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, A Biography (New York: Knopf, 1995), p. xi and David Levering Lewis

  • Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

    Creator:
    Ellis, Erik
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    This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
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    Dissertation
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    a biography of Morris Cohen, a well-known early twentieth century American intellectual, David

  • John Wesley Powell : science and reform in a positive context

    Creator:
    Zernel, John Joseph, 1945-
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    John Wesley Powell worked actively for public land system reform while a director of geographical and geological surveys in the West from 1869 to 1894. Although this has won him acclaim as a conservationist, the basis of Powell's linkage of reform with scientific work is poorly understood. A study of...
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    Dissertation
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    farther in the background Charles D. Walcott, head of the Geological Survey after Powell. 2 The

  • Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

    Creator:
    Jolly, J. Christopher
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    The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...
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    Dissertation
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    provide a less-than-detailed examination of the input of the scientific community.9 David Jacobsen and