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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: The Hwang Woo-Suk Scandal and the Development of Bioethics in South Korea
By: Anne Clay
| Published: Nov 26, 2020
In 2004, the South Korean geneticist Woo-Suk Hwang published what was widely regarded as the most important research finding in biotechnology that…
ethicsInformed consent (Medical law)Scientific MisconductFraud, ScientificScientific Dishonesty
Essay: Homology
By: Ingo Brigandt
| Published: Nov 23, 2011
Homology is a central concept of comparative and evolutionary biology, referring to the presence of the same bodily parts (e.g., morphological…
Homology (Biology)Morphology
Essay: The Cuvier-Geoffroy Debate
By: Valerie Racine
| Published: Oct 07, 2013
In 1830, a dispute erupted in the halls of lÕAcad mie des Sciences in Paris between the two most prominent anatomists of the nineteenth century.…
EssayAnimals--ClassificationCuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832AnatomyBiological Evolution
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
Dissertation: Lessons from Embryos: Haeckel’s Embryo Drawings, Evolution, and Secondary Biology Textbooks
By: Karen Linette Wellner
| Published: Nov 06, 2020
Haeckel believed that the development of an embryo revealed the adult stages of the organism’s ancestors. Haeckel represented this idea with drawings…
TextbooksEmbryosEmbryonic DevelopmentEmbryo DevelopmentPublications
Dissertation: Degeneration in Miniature: History of Cell Death and Aging Research in the Twentieth Century
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Nov 17, 2020
Once perceived as an unimportant occurrence in living organisms, cell degeneration was reconfigured as an important biological phenomenon in…
Cell DeathCells--AgingCaenorhabditis elegansAging, CellCellular Aging
Thesis: Informed Consent Laws for Abortion: What Do Women Have a "Right to Know?
By: Richa Venkatraman
| Published: Mar 11, 2021
The objective of this project was to determine the importance of informed consent laws to achieving the larger goal of dismantling the right to…
Abortion--Law and legislationInformed consent (Medical law)Patient RightsPatients' Rightsethics
Thesis: Human Preconception Sex Selection: Informing the Public of Sex Selection Methods and Ethical Considerations
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Feb 26, 2021
By questioning methods of sex selection since their early development, and often discovering that they are unreliable, scientists have increased the…
Sex PreselectionSex SelectionEthics, MedicalMedical Ethicsethics
Thesis: Uterine Technologies: Ethical and Social Considerations
By: Aubrey Pinteric
| Published: Aug 14, 2025
Over the past few decades, female infertility rates have been steadily increasing. As of 2025, various infertility treatments, including IVF and…
ReproductionWomen's HealthBiologyethicsUterus