Browsing OU - Theses by Author "Nair, Aparna"
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Canids and Humans in Oklahoma: How Rabies Shaped the Interactions Between Humans, Dogs, and Coyotes in Oklahoma between 1870 and 1920
Gehrke, Kendall (2021-08)Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1920 in Oklahoma, this thesis examines the ways in which rabies and hydrophobia shaped the interactions between humans, dogs, and coyotes, primarily by examining the ways in which ... -
“A great mass of incompetent men”: Contested medical frontiers in Oklahoma, 1880-1940
Folger, Benjamin (2022-05-13)This thesis observes the movement of White aspiring physicians to Indian and Oklahoma Territories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the racial and professional interactions that ensued. Like other Whites, ... -
Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies
McCool, Calandra (2016-05-13)Scientific knowledge is a global pursuit, one that takes on many different guises across cultures. This thesis argues that indigenous peoples have and had their own, independently developed forms of scientific knowledge, ... -
Nosology, Urban Infrastructure, and Public Health Discourse in 18th-century Philadelphia: An In-Depth Look at Fever Debates During the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic
Root, Elizabeth (2022-05)By the 1790s, Philadelphia was a thriving port city that saw numerous ships arriving daily from foreign ports throughout the Atlantic world. In 1793, many of these in-bound ships were not carrying the typical goods to be ... -
Science and the Construction of Therapeutics in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 1879-1906
Beasley, Caitlin (2018-05)The late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a crisis in therapeutics as scientific developments overturned the theoretical underpinnings of humoral medicine, leaving room for lively and pluralistic discourses of health ... -
Seismology in India: Colonial Geologists and the Raj, 1880-1910
Tolman, Aja (2018)At the end of the nineteenth century, seismologists were trying to create a ‘universal’ seismology that could be applied worldwide. Applying the observational European techniques in various places across the world challenged ... -
“TO SACRIFICE THE VITAL RHYTHMS OF THEIR BEING”: IMPAIRMENT, RESISTANCE, AND INDUSTRIAL CRISIS IN SÃO JERÔNIMO, RIO GRANDE DO SUL, 1944-1964
Williams, Cody (2019)This thesis mainly examines how Brazilian coalminers dealt with the consequences and opportunities presented them through Retirement and Pensions Institutes in a period of national and global tumult from 1942 to 1947. An ...