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From ‘Remedy Highly Esteemed’ to ‘Barbarous Practice’: The Rise and Fall of Acupuncture in Nineteenth-Century America
(2015-05-27)
physicians – specifically, from French and British practitioners in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They used acupuncture to conduct experiments on patients suffering from various ailments. Research also indicates that the practice enjoyed...
Making the Frontier’s Anatomical Engineers: Osteopathy, A. T. Still (1828–1917), his Acolytes and Patients
(2020)
training, but gender shaped their experience and career outcomes. Contrary to modern thought, this early support did not mean that women’s experiences were the same as men’s experiences. Women were able to practice osteopathy without living the cloistered...
"Something at Least Human": Transatlantic (Re)Presentations of Creole Women in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(2015-06-19)
Throughout the nineteenth century, Creole women were consistently idealized,
exoticized, and demonized in literature and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. While
the term Creole is still hotly contested even today, ...
Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint ...
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 ...