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Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

Creator:: Schefke, Brian R.
Abstract:: Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented power and prestige. The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly collapsed amid mutual suspicion and fear, however, resulting in the Cold War. Science was a significant political component in that ideological conflict. In the United States, inspired by Franklin D....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Master of Arts in History of Science presented on August 11, 2000. Title: Morality and Materialism

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: in science, I discuss the Quaker influences in their lives and works with the larger goal of

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Food Science and Technology archive room. Thanks to Larry Landis of the Oregon State University

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Creator:: Lovestone, Lauren R.
Abstract:: During the first decades of the twentieth century different attempts were made to unify the diversifying and specializing sciences. One of these attempts manifested as the History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by George Sarton clarified that the field was created...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: History of Science. Established in 1913 with the academic journal Isis, its first article written by

Manufactured science - the attorneys' handmaiden : the influence of industry in occupational disease research during the twentieth century

Creator:: Biegel, Craig A.
Abstract:: Since the early twentieth century, manufacturers of toxic products have attempted to discredit research linking their product with disease. At the same time they have manufactured their own science designed to minimize risks associated with their products. Much of this activity has been conducted by or through corporate attorneys, endeavors...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: +"7.5)3*.3@*$=14"3'"2*.5)$*(1&5"3'"-$835JS"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science "TJ" %3F"U"V!WXY

Translating the Animal

Creator:: Owen, Melody
Abstract:: My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: This exhibition is the result of research in the philosophical field of animal studies and an

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Creator:: McHugh, Kathleen M.
Abstract:: Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: degree of Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Science presented on March 15, 2022 Title

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Creator:: Fraas, Picabo K.
Abstract:: In 1947, scientists from the University of California departed for a fifteen-month expedition to Africa. Jessie Camp, wife of the head paleontologist Dr. Charles L. Camp, had no official position on the expedition. Yet in performing her traditional domestic duties, she greatly contributed to the overall success of the expedition....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Science program who have been nothing but kind and supportive since I first walked through the

Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Creator:: Zarajczyk, Katie MaryRuth
Abstract:: This thesis seeks to explore how an ecofeminist lens is currently the most useful approach for improving farmed animal welfare. Through examining Western conceptions of non-human animals, I seek to shed light upon the inconsistent treatment of domestic species. Species that are dependent upon us deserve, at a minimum, not...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: this journal and with photographs. The housing is abusive, the animal’s welfare seems of secondary

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

Creator:: Paoli, Gus R.
Abstract:: The Second World War was not just a military struggle but also a struggle between two different agriculture, food distribution, and nutrition systems in the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany. At the start of the war, both countries understood that food and nutrition would play an important role and carefully...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: demonstrate how the United Kingdom and Germany responded to the nutritional needs of their human and animal

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Morality and materialism : American conservatives and science, 1945-1964

The light within us : Quaker women in science

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

Empathy, Person and Community: the Foundation of the Sciences in the Phenomenology of Edith Stein

Manufactured science - the attorneys' handmaiden : the influence of industry in occupational disease research during the twentieth century

Translating the Animal

Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

Dig Sites and Domesticity: Jessie Camp and the 1947 University of California Africa Expedition

Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

Feeding Victory: The Challenge of Agriculture, Food Distribution, and Nutrition During the Second World War in the United Kingdom and Germany

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