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Thesis: From Fertilization to Birth: Representing Development in High School Biology Textbooks
By: Karen Linette Wellner
| Published: Feb 14, 2021
Biology textbooks are everybody's business. In accepting the view that texts are created with specific social goals in mind, I examined 127 twentieth…
TextbooksBook IllustrationsPictorial WorkPublications
Thesis: Reproduction in Science Fiction
By: Grace Dayoung Kim
| Published: Feb 10, 2021
Science fiction works can reflect the relationship between science and society by telling stories that are set in the future of ethical implications…
Science FictionLiteratureScience in literaturePublicationsReproduction
Thesis: Twilight Sleep and its Contributions in Shaping Perceptions of Childbirth
By: Yvette Ho Tran
| Published: Feb 05, 2021
This thesis explores the impact of Twilight Sleep on women and physicians and their perceptions of childbirth. Twilight Sleep empowered women to take…
LaborChildbirthPhysician-Patient RelationsPhysician Patient Relationship
Thesis: The Genesis of Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
By: Bianca Zietal
| Published: Feb 01, 2021
This is a project about medicine and the history of a condition called premenstrual syndrome (PMS), its “discovery” and conceptual development at…
Premenstrual syndromeScience in literatureMedicine in literatureReproduction
Thesis: Dismantling Legal Constraints to Contraception in the 1900s
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jan 27, 2021
In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contraception illegal and classified contraception as an obscenity…
ContraceptionReproductive RightsBirth control in literatureFertility ControlSocial Change
Dissertation: Fetal Risk, Federal Response: How Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Influenced the Adoption of Alcohol Health Warning Labels
By: Erica O’Neil
| Published: Jan 21, 2021
In the fifteen years between the discovery of fetal alcohol syndrome, or FAS, in 1973 and the passage of alcohol beverage warning labels in 1988, FAS…
fetal alcohol syndromeAlcoholism in pregnancyChildren of prenatal alcohol abusepublic healthFederal Government
Thesis: A History of Cellular Senescence and Its Relation to Stem Cells in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
By: Zane Bartlett
| Published: Dec 16, 2020
This study aims to provide information to answer the following question: While some scientists claim they can indefinitely culture a stem cell line…
AgingsenescenceCell Culture TechniquesCell culturePublications
Thesis: Surprising Religious and Republican Roots to Planned Parenthood: An Arizona Case Study
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Dec 14, 2020
The social and political history surrounding Planned Parenthood Arizona illustrates the interplay between politics and the reproductive rights…
Politics and governmentWorld politicsPoliticsPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaCase Study
Thesis: Substance-Exposed Newborns in Arizona: An Analysis of Medically, Ethically, and Legally Appropriate Federal and State Responses
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Dec 10, 2020
In an attempt to discover, analyze, and compile those complex issues with which community health workers should be knowledgeable, this project…
RegulationChildren of prenatal substance abuseHealth PolicyNational Health Policy
Thesis: The ‘History and Nature of Science’ in the Era of Standards-Based Reform
By: Cera Lawrence
| Published: Dec 09, 2020
The goal of science education in the United States is promoting scientific literacy for all students. The goal necessitates understanding the nature…
literacyEducationGeneral EducationReadingWriting