Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Hale, Piers"
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Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
Sukumaran, Goutham (2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
Listening At the Lab: Bird Watchers and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Pope, Jackson (2016-05)Professionalization within the sciences has often been presented as a process of separation between scientists and the public. Implicit within this conception of professionalization is a hierarchical conception of knowledge ... -
Local Lunacy: A Legal, Political, and Spatial History of the Early British Psychiatric System and the Causes for the Lunacy and County Asylums Acts of 1845
Coffman, Rivers (2022-05-14)Between 1774 and 1845, British social outlook towards mental health changed drastically and a new wave of prominent medical people revolutionized the field. Quaker beliefs and Enlightenment philosophy influenced ideas of ... -
Masculine methods: travel narratives and scientific authority in early Victorian Britain
Milburn, Millie (2022-08-04)Feminist formulations have rightly impacted the history of science. In this thesis, I show how in the context of 19th Century Britain, men of science appealed to contemporary norms of masculinity to claim masculine virtues ... -
Species Transformation and Social Reform: The Role of the Will in Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Transformist Theory
Testa, Camille (2021)Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is well known as a pre-Darwinian proponent of evolution; however, comparatively little has been published on his views of human physiology and development. This paper argues that the will was of ... -
The gilded skull in England's closet : displaying human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History
Burnes, James Marcus (2014)