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Undergraduate Announcement
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Independent work guide
Learn more about junior independent work and senior thesis research.
Sample health-related HIS theses
- “And Then They Came For Me” An Examination of Human Medical Experimentation in Nazi Germany and the United States
- A Bundle of Sadness: Medicalization of Postpartum Depression
- The Doctors' Riot of 1788: Unraveling the Dynamics of Race, Medicine, and Civil Unrest that Prompted America’s First Anatomy Act
- “Eternal Father, Strong to Save”: The US Navy Medical Department in the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953
- House of Extended Grace: Gwanghyewon and the Role of Medical Missions in Early Korean Christianity during the 1880s
- A Madness Network: Psychiatric Survivor Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1972-1986
- “Opinions, Statements, Knowledge, Hearsay”: Scientific Controversy in AIDS Origin Theories
- "Revolution of Falling Expectations": Bertram Brown & the Political Psychiatry of Community Mental Health (1963-1978)
- Snake Roots, Luck Charms, and Old Twisted Muscadines: Understanding African American Herbal Healing from Enslavement to the 1930s
- The Showman and the Scalpel: P.T. Barnum, His Circus, and its Impact on Medicine
- Women and AIDS: Women's Advocacy and Leadership in ACT UP NY 1987-1993