How deafness is perceived as a problem by society dictates what types of technologies are leveraged to address the problem, and, conversely, available technologies shape how deafness is perceived. In this dissertation, I draw on multiple methods to explore the meanings of deafne…
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Inspired by the frequent references to Bashar al-Asad's medical qualifications, this dissertation explores the historical process, more than a century old, which brought temporal sovereignty and medical authority together in the figure of the Syrian president. Medicine was an im…
Medical experts claim that Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among United States military service personnel, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan has contributed to an "epidemic of suicide" in the U.S. However, veterans, military commanders, and mental health providers argue that feel…
The dissertation examines the development of assisted reproduction in American medicine and culture between the first reported use of artificial insemination in the late eighteenth century and the birth of the modern cryobanking industry at the end of the twentieth century. It f…
This dissertation investigates and describes the concept of precision medicine from historical, conceptual, capital investment, industry strategic, regulatory oversight, and medicalization perspectives. The study examines the various current and ongoing challenges, impacts, assi…
While accounting for less than 5 percent of the Canadian population, Indigenous peoplesrepresent more than 30 percent of the federal prison population of Canada. In a prairie province like Manitoba the numbers are even more extreme, with over three-quarters of the prison populat…