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  • Influenza : a study of contemporary medical politics 
    Doshi, Peter Nikolai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Over the past decade, the prevention and control of seasonal and pandemic influenza has grown to be one of the largest and most visible public health policies. This dissertation considers contemporary influenza policy as ...
  • Corporate bodies and chemical bonds : an STS analysis of natural gas development in the United States 
    Wylie, Sara Ann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Natural gas extraction in the United States in the early 21st century has transformed social, physical, legal and biological landscapes. The technique of hydraulic fracturing, which entails the high-pressure injection into ...
  • The rules of perception : American color science, 1831-1931 
    Rossi, Michael Paul, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Although vision was seldom studied in Antebellum America, color and color perception became a critical field of scientific inquiry in the United States during the Gilded Age and progressive era. Through a historical ...
  • Placing outer space : an earthly ethnography of other worlds 
    Messeri, Lisa Rebecca (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This dissertation concerns the role of place in scientific practice. Ideas of place, I argue, shape and are shaped by science. I specifically look at the community of planetary scientists who, though they cannot step foot ...
  • Accounting for taste : regulating food labeling in the "affluent society," 1945-1995 
    Frohlich, Xaq Zachary (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    This dissertation traces a transformation in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's governance of food markets during the second half of the 20th century. In response to new correlations between diet and risk of disease, ...
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