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Empire of energy : environment, geopolitics, and American technology before the age of oil
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This dissertation asks how the United States physically built its global empire. Between 1840 and 1930, empire building involved the establishment of a network of naval bases and coaling stations. By focusing on energy, I ...
Those who don't know : modernity, risk, and transition in Hanoi's local markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
My research is about the particular effects of Vietnam's economic liberalization program (known as "doi moi") on the local food and market system in Hanoi. Doi moi policies, which began in the late 1980s, have instituted ...
Modeling proteins, making scientists : an ethnography of pedagogy and visual cultures in contemporary structural biology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This ethnography tracks visualization and pedagogy in the burgeoning field of structural biology. Structural biologists are a multidisciplinary group of researchers who produce models and animations of protein molecules ...
Pharmaceutical relationships : intersections of illness, fantasy, and capital in the age of direct-to-consumer marketing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This dissertation is a multi-sited ethnography among marketers, consumer-patients and psychiatrists in the U.S. It explores the recent history of styles of pharmaceutical advertising that have come about in response to FDA ...