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Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Creator:: Turner, Althea L.
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I posited the need to understand how an invented community (the Society for Creative Anachronism) constructs symbolic meaning in material objects and value systems. Using ethnographic methods, I focused on the Knights and their regalia as this is the most widely accepted material symbolism. People go to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: power within a society. The ritualistic words of Tolkien’s mythic character, Pippin, are used by an

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Willoughby, Orion Sherwood; Petitioners vs. United States of America In the Supreme Curt of the United

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

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Journal of the Historical Society, 2004, 4(2):252. 12 See for example, Nick Salvatore, "Biography and

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 1919, meteorologists had no professional society. The post-World War I rise of aeronautics spurred

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:: Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth
Abstract:: The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: is essential to understanding the culture and society of Cold War America. Scientists in the post

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Creator:: Gormley, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: L. C. Dunn (1893-1974) spent most of his scientific career conducting research in developmental genetics as a member of the Zoology Department at Columbia University in the City of New York. He had an accomplished scientific career researching mutations in mice, which earned him respect from other geneticists and scientists....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: the Genetics Sections of the American Society of Zoologists and the Botanical Society of America

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

Creator:: Canavan, Barbara C.
Abstract:: By means of a case study and historical analysis, this dissertation examines the past and present of avian influenza. By integrating disconnected histories of human and animal influenza, this dissertation links historical insights with the concerns of contemporary avian flu science. It is not only a natural history of avian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . 43 Scott Podolsky, “The Role of the Virus in Origin-of-Life Theorizing,” Journal of the History of

An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Creator:: Wollert, Edwin Del
Abstract:: While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: forays into North America, they pose the troubling question of religious reform in Europe, and they

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

Creator:: Jolly, J. Christopher
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: International Commission on Radiation Protection JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association JCAE Joint

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

Creator:: Caulkins, Tamara L.
Abstract:: During the eighteenth century, diagrams increasingly became an important aspect of scientific inquiry. Diagrams employed simplification as a strategy for representing complex information, played a role in standardizing scientific language, and served as instruments of reason to think through and communicate problems and findings in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, natural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: much of Europe and North America), court dance and the command of troops were closely connected

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Honored values and valued objects : the Society for Creative Anachronism

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

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

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Geneticist L.C. Dunn : politics, activism, and community

Opening Pandora's Box at the Roof of the World : The Past and Present of Avian Influenza Science

An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

The Science of Becoming Noble: Rationalizing Aristocracy through Diagrammatic Notations for Dance and Drill in the Age of Enlightenment

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