Browsing by Author "Arleen Tuchman"
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Gomez Zuluaga, Pablo Fernando (2010-06-11)Department: HistoryThis dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, ...
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Dodd, Jenifer Michele (2016-06-30)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines the battle between various ideas—psychiatric and feminist in particular—surrounding sexual violence in the 1980s. Women’s advocates worked tirelessly in the 1980s to redefine rape as an act of ...
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Newman, Harmony Danyelle (2010-03-04)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the relationship between structural-level frames and individual behaviors using the case of breastfeeding in the United States and Canada. More specifically, it examines macro-level breastfeeding ...
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O'Reilly, Kelly Rose (2017-08-29)Department: HistoryIn early 1965, Dr. Jack Geiger, a physician with a history of civil rights activism, approached officials in the newly-created Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and proposed a plan to create a community health center ...
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Clark, Stacy Catherine (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2009-04-27)
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Chresfield, Michell (2016-07-27)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines a century of biological and social scientific interest in four communities of presumed white, Indian, and African-American ancestry. Prior to the 1970s the Monacan Indians of Virginia, the ...
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The angel paradox: Elizabeth Fry and the role of gender and religion in nineteenth-century Britain Matheuszik, Deanna Lynn (2013-04-15)Department: HistoryThis dissertation analyzes intersections of religion, gender, and public policy in nineteenth-century Britain through the life of Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), a Quaker minister and prison reform activist who founded the ...
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Hubbard, Justin Wade (2019-08-21)Department: HistoryThe following dissertation examines how the US Army created and utilized new technologies to address the problem of heroin abuse in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks the creation and implementation of urine drug ...