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Deviant Women, Toxic Bodies: Eugenics and Public Health in the United States, 1900-1950
Tina Kibbe studies the relation between the policies and rhetoric of eugenics and the language and imagery of gender. This is part of her dissertation work as a graduate student in the History Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Here is a report on her research as a Dissertation Research Fellow at PACHS.
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Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History
Matthew Laubacher is a student in the Department of History at Arizona State University. Matthew received a Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Center for his dissertation on “Cultures of Collection in Late Nineteenth Century Natural History.” Here is his report on what he found in the archives of PACHS consortium institutions.
From the PACHS Blog
The ‘Please don’t touch’ museum at CHF
July 1, 2009 by Anke
Refracting Galileo, Again
June 26, 2009 by Babak Ashrafi
Things that make you go “aaaahh!”
June 24, 2009 by Anke
Of cans and worms
June 17, 2009 by Anke
Nineteen eighty-four
June 10, 2009 by Anke
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