M. L. Smith

In the United States, millions of young girls have developed negative attitudes toward their bodies leading them to engage in behaviors that promote eating disorders and obesity. There is a need for prevention programs which examine interactions between body image, behavior, cul…

Between the Civil War and World War I, the American scientific community shifted from a nineteenth century explorer-naturalist tradition to a twentieth century "managerial" model of national science. This new professional identity stressed a translocal, occupational definition o…