Background Prior work assessing disparities in cancer outcomes has relied on regional
socioeconomic metrics. These metrics average data across many individuals, resulting in a loss …

… In February 1862, two elders of the First Presbyterian Church of Knoxville went to the house
of member Mary A. … Mary Jane Reynolds commented on her attempts to keep a low pro- …

This thesis investigates East Tennessee women in the Civil War era and finds that women
experienced a change in roles during wartime, but those changes did not prove lasting. East …

The standard narrative in the history of the life sciences focuses on the rise of experimentalism
since the late nineteenth century and the concomitant decline of natural history. Here, I …

… The primary reasons for Ledley and others’ concerns with the organization of scientific …
organisms came to be studied experimentally in serological taxonomy, see Strasser 2010. …

For a long time and not too long ago, most histories of female convents were still written by
Catholic scholars and published in religious presses and journals. 1 Just as convent walls …

Background: Stroke is a devastating perioperative complication without effective methods
for prevention or diagnosis. The objective of this study was to analyze evidence-based …

Our course “World History: Gender and Politics, 1400–1870” emerged out of our commitment
as feminists to making gender and sexuality central to how the rapidly growing field of …

… On Dayhoff's early use of computers and her work in molecular evolution see Strasser, “Collecting,
Comparing, and Computing Sequences.” Dayhoff's collaborators included Richard V. …

… hauling and fire tending--Susan Strasser demonstrates how industrialization transformed the
nature … In this lively and authoritative book, Strasser weaves together the history of material …