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From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
considerable popularity in the United States as far back as the early part of the nineteenth century, with American physicians conducting similar experiments on patients in an effort to determine acupuncture’s underlying mechanism of action. In the second half...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
This project seeks to understand osteopathy as patients, students, and doctors did during the late nineteenth century. A. T. Still’s osteopathic medical theories proclaimed manual therapeutics to treat disease. Still’s ...
Living in Fear: An Analysis of Writings by Elizabeth Tudor, 1544-1565
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the writings of Elizabeth Tudor and determine
whether she was aware of the instability of her position in her formative years. I analyze how
Elizabeth used language to both ...
Three Paths To Religious Integration In Ernest Hemingway’s War Fiction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
My dissertation studies religiosity in Ernest Hemingway’s war fiction in terms of
how his soldier characters connect to the divine. The means to understanding this
connection is in refining how the characters express ...