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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)(cont.) In the process, this thesis intervenes in social theoretical debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation recounts the development of graphic models of human bodies and virtual reality simulators for teaching anatomy and surgery to medical students, residents, and physicians. It considers how researchers from ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)My dissertation, "Changed Climate: Networking, Professionalization, and Grassroots Organizing in U.S Environmental Organizations," explores the efforts of four established U.S. environmental NGOs to change their organizational ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Guglielmo Marconi's trans-Atlantic wireless experiment in 1900 marked the beginning of a communication revolution that transformed the open space above the earth into channels of information flow. This dissertation grapples ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This study investigates the status of mathematical knowledge in mid-century America. It is motivated by questions such as: when did mathematical theories become applicable to a wide range of fields from medicine to the ...
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This ethnography tracks a diverse set of practices I term "constructive biologies," by which I mean efforts in the post-genomic life sciences to understand how biology works by making new biological things. I examine five ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
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(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 ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The thesis utilises newly available legal and municipal archives to study the historical geography of colonial Bombay through five interlocking themes and periods from 1870-1930. This spans the period between the boom and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In recent years, coaching has become a major form of personal and professional development service offered to executives to help develop leadership skills, enhance performance, and remediate patterns of problematic workplace ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis traces the development of American bacteriology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. While bacteriology experienced a period of rapid growth, an enduring disciplinary anxiety equally characterized ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Fighting Engineers examines social conflict as the cause of the formation of professional mechanical engineering in the nineteenth century U.S. Navy. In the middle of that century, the Navy began to utilize steam engines ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)With the emergence of biomedical technologies, human body parts from living or dead donors have become commodities in the international networks of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This dissertation uses the Ames Family of Easton, Massachusetts as a case study on development of business and industry in early nineteenth century America. From English iron-working roots transplanted to America in 1635 ...
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