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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
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Factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Korean American women

Creator:: Skidmore, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: This study examines the utilization of health care by Korean American women in Pierce County, Washington. Pierce County, with its large population of Asian Americans, offers a variety of health care options, everything from biomedicine to acupuncture and herbal remedies. Regarding the multitude of options available, I asked the question...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Factors Influencing the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Korean American Women

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

Creator:: Stoller, Kevin R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ," Journal of the History of Biology (2001) 34 (1): 3-50 and Philip J. Pauly, Controlling Ltfe: Jacques Loeb

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

Creator:: Hall, Alice
Abstract:: The Second Pandemic had a profound impact on the people of Europe. In the few years between 1347 and 1350, a new epidemic disease spread across the entirety of Europe and killed between one third and two thirds of the population. While this initial wave was important, the real significance...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the Black Death: Perceptions and Reactions of University Medical Practitioners," in Practical Medicine

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:: Better Farms’: Domestic Reform in Rural Tennessee,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 22, no. 1

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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease and the American Journal of Human Genetics, purporting to have

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

Creator:: Oney, Celia E.
Abstract:: People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of its time at the museum. In an internal memo, OMSI employee Rusty Whitney provided information

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:: the pages of National Review, the most important postwar conservative journal. In Chapter 3, I will

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:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF J. Christopher Jolly for the

Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

Creator:: Racansky, Pamela A.
Abstract:: The United States population continues to increase and diversify. The cultural composition within the United States embodies a multitude of people from a variety of belief systems, religious backgrounds, and ethnicities. Within current biomedical practice, many of these differences are often marginalized, leaving populations with unsatisfactory experiences in seeking health...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: internal medicine physicians-in-training. We reviewed articles and passages from medical anthropology

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

Factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Korean American women

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

Plague in London : a case study of the biological and social pressures exerted by 300 years of yersinia pestis

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

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

Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

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

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

Oregon Health & Science University's understanding of cultural competency

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