THESES IN PROGRESS
S. MAROSKE
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
History of Physics in Australia - H.C. Bolton; R.W. Home and R.P. Robertson
History of Biology - J.M. Dixon; L.R. Gillbank and M.M. MacCallum The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller - R.W. Home and S. Maroske Records of Science in Australian Repositories G.J. McCarthy
Chemistry in Australia in the nineteenth century - J. Radford History of CSIR Tribophysics laboratory J.A. Spink
FACULTY OF ARTS
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
General Philosophy of Science - J. Collier; F.J. Clendinnen;
H.P. Krips; H.E. Le Grand; and J. Love
Philosophy of Biology - J. Clendinnen and J. Collier Philosophy of Language - H.R. Verran
Philosophy of Physics - H. Krips and J. Collier Philosophy of Psychology - A-M. Taylor
Ethics of Science and Technology - A-M. Taylor
Social and Cognitive Accounts of Scientific Change - J. Collier;
K.R. Hutchison; H. Krips; H.E. Le Grand; J. Sapp and H.R. Verran Philosophy of Social Theory - H.P. Krips and G.B. Sharp
Prehuman Knowledge Mechanisms R.R. Traill HISTORY OF SCIENCE
History and Social Studies of Mathematics - J. Pottage and H.R. Verran History and Social Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Science - K. Hutchison
History and Social Studies of Modern Life Sciences - M.M. MacCallum and J. Sapp
History and Social Studies of Modern Earth Sciences - H.E. Le Grand History and Social Studies of Modern Physical Sciences - R.W. Home and J. Collier
History of Social Sciences - J. Love
Rhetoric in Science - H.P. Krips; H.E. Le Grand and J. Sapp Social History of Medicine - L. Geary and S. Maroske
Studies on Historical Scientific Instruments - H.C. Bolton Einstein and Metaphor in the 1920s - R.R. Traill
Rhetoric - R.R. Traill
SOCIAL THEORY
General Theoretical Issues of Social Theory - H.P. Krips; J. Love and G.B. Sharp
Social Theory- Interdisciplinary Studies - K.R. Hutchison and H.R. Verran
Recent Social Theorists - H.P. Krips and G.B. Sharp Classical Social Theorists - J. Love
ANTHROPOLOGY
The Hindu Temple complex of Munnesvaram, Sri Lanka - Ritual Aesthetics and Mythical Paradigms in a Hindu/Buddhist Interaction - R.N. Bastin Millenarianism and Hindu Eschatology - R.N. Bastin
Development and Tradition in Sri Lanka - R.N. Bastin
Conflicting Claims to Ethnic Identity - Greeks and Macedonians in Multicultural Australia - L.M. Danforth
Traditional Healing in Cambodia - I.M. Eisenbruch
The Ethnography of Meganisi, Lefkada, Greece - F.P.R. Just Interpretative Approaches to Classical Mythology - F.P.R. Just
Ideological Change among the Overseas Chinese in the Special Economic Zone in China - K.E. Kuah
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (and ANTHROPOLOGY)
Overseas Chinese Capital and Rural Development in China - A Case Study
• K.E. Kuah
Impact of Overseas Chinese Capital in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone, China - K.E. Kuah
The Revival of Ancestor Worship in Rural China - A Case Study K.E. Kuah
Commodification of Domesticity - Feminism and Gender Relations in the Asian Context - K.E. Kuah
Women and Protestant Buddhism in Singapore - K.E. Kuah
From "Instant Asia" to "Food Paradise": A Reinvention of Tradition:
From Colonialism to Tourism in Singapore - K.E. Kuah
State and Religion: Protestant Buddhism in Singapore K.E. Kuah Chinese Kinship and Lineage Organisation: Structural Continuity between Mainland and Overseas Chinese - K.E. Kuah
Annotated Bibliography of Chinese works on Anthropology of China - K.E. Kuah
The Mythic Histories of the Ata Sikka, Flores, Eastern Indonesia - E.D. Lewis
Cultural Ecology of the Tana 'Ai Valley, Flores, Eastern Indonesia - E.D. Lewis
Lexicography of Sara Sikka (the Sikkanese language of Flores, Eastern Indonesia) - E.D. Lewis
The Analysis of Large-Scale Rituals in Tana-'Ai, Flores, Eastern Indonesia - E.D. Lewis
Kinship Theory in the Light of the Ethnography of North Ambrym, Vanuatu - M.C. Patterson
The History of European Contact in Ambrym - Vanuatu and in Relation to Cosmological Beliefs - M.C. Patterson
The Construction of Gender in Colonial and Post-Colonial Vanuatu - M.C. Patterson
The Sociology of Mysticism with Special Reference to Cabbala - G.K. Zollschan
Cabbalistic Influences on Sir Isaac Newton's Conception of Space - G.K. Zollschan and S. Jacobson (Deakin)
PUBLISHED WORK
Books
GILLESPIE, R. - Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York: 282 pp (1991).
GILLESPIE, R., H. Attwood and M. Lewis, eds., - Perspectives in the History of Australian Medicine, Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Melbourne: 303 pp. (1990).
HOME, R.W., and S.G. Kohlstedt, eds., - International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America, Kluwer, Dordrecht: ix + 318 pp (1991).
LOVE, J.R. - Antiquity and Capitalism: Max Weber and the Sociological Foundations of Roman Civilization, Routledge, London: 337 pp (1991).
FACULTY OF ARTS
MCCARTHY, G.J., ed., - Guide to the Archives of Science in Australia.
Records of Individuals, D.W. Thorpe, Melbourne: xi + 291 pp (1991).
ROBIN, E. - Building a Forest Conscience: An Historical Portrait of the Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria (NRCL), The Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria: 155 pp (1991).
Chapters of Books
GILLESPIE, R. - Epidemics and Power: Weil's Disease in North Queensland, 1929-39, in Perspectives in the History of Australian Medicine, eds. H. Attwood, R. Gillespie and M. Lewis, Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Melbourne: 59-65 (1990).
HOME, R.W. - A World-Wide Scientific Network and Patronage System:
Australian and Other 'Colonial' Fellows of the Royal Society of London, in International and National Scientific Identity, ed.
R.W. Home and S.G. Kohlstedt, Kluwer, Dordrecht: 151-179 (1991).
HUTCHISON, K.R. - Copernicus, Apollo and Herakles, in The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition, ed. S. Gaukroger, Kluwer, Dordrecht: 1-23 (1991).
JUST, F.P.R. - The Limits of Kinship, in Contested Identities. Gender and Kinship in Modern Greece; eds P. Loizos and E. Papataxiarchis, Princeton University Press: 114-132 (1991).
LE GRAND, H.E. - Theories of the Earth as Seen from Below, in
International Science and National Scientific Identity, ed. R.W. Home and S.G. Kohlstedt, Kluwer, Dordrecht: 205-232 (1991).
LEWIS, E.D. - Sika, in Comparative Austronesia Dictionary: An
Introduction to Austronesian Studies, Part 1; ed. Darrell T. Tryon, Mouton de Giruyter, Berlin: 599-608 (plus Dictionary) (1991).
POTTAGE, J. - Mathematics and Art, in Whither Mathematics?,
ed. K. Clements, Mathematical Association of Victoria: 125-134 (1990).
POTTAGE, J. - The Ascent From Drill to Tactics and From Tactics to Strategy, ibid: 352-355 (1990).
SAPP, J. - Living Together: Symbiosis and Cytoplasmic Inheritance, in Symbiosis as Source of Evolutionary Innovation: Speciation and
Morphogenesis, ed. L. Margulis and R. Fester, MIT Press, Cambridge:
1-23 (1991).
SAPP, J. - Geographic Isolation and the Origin of Species: the Migrations of Michael White, in International Science and National Scientific Identity, ed. R.W. Home and S.G. Kohlstedt, Kluwer, Dordrecht: 233-254 (1991).
SAPP, J. - Hérédité Cytoplasmique et Histoire de la Génétique, in Histoire de la Génétique. Pratique, Techniques et Théories,
ed. J.-L. Fischer and W. Schneider, A.R.P.E.M. et Editions Sciences en situation, Paris: 231-246 (1990).
SAPP, J. - Concepts of Organization: The Leverage of Protozoa, in Developmental Biology: A Comprehensive Synthesis, ed. S. Gilbert, Plenum Press, New York: 229-258 (1991).
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (and ANTHROPOLOGY)
Articles
BOLTON, H.C. - "On the Mathematical Significance of the Similarity Index of Ochiai as a Measure for Biogeographical Habitats", in Australian Journal of Zoology 39: 143-156 (1991).
BOLTON, H.C. • "The Introscope: an Instrument With a Link to Wartime Australian Optics", in The Australian Physicist 27: Education
Supplement 3, p.4 (November 1990).
BOLTON, H.C. - "Listening to Lorentz: the Sound of Breaking Waves", in The Australian Physicist 28: 164-168 (August 1991).
BOLTON, H.C. - "A.M.C. Thom: Crossing the Gap Between Amateur and Professional ScienceTM, in The Victorian Historical Journal 62: 51-59 (June 1991).
COLLIER, J.D. - "Critical Notice of Richard Alexander: The Biology of Moral Systems", in Canadian Journal of Philosophy 21: 73-88 (1991).
DIXON, J.M. - "Record of a Southern Right Whale Eubalaena australia skeleton from Altona Bay, Victoria, Australia", in Victorian Nat.
107(6): 159-62 (1990).
DIXON, J.M. and THORP, B.H. - "Cartilaginous Bone Extremities of Growing Monotremes appear Unique", in The Anatomical Record 229 (4):
447-52. 1-6 Wiley-Liss Inc. (1991).
EISENBRUCH, I.M. - "From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to Cultural Bereavement: Diagnosis of Southeast Asian Refugees", in Social Science and Medicine 33(6): 673-680 (1991).
EISENBRUCH, I.M. - "Towards a Culturally Sensitive DSM: Cultural Bereavement in Cambodian Refugees and the Traditional Healer as Taxonomist", in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 180(1): 8-10 (January 1992).
EISENBRUCH, I.M. - "'The Contribution of Anthropology to Psychiatry", in Australian Psychiatry and the Tradition of Aubrey Lewis, ed. David Copolov. National Health and Medical Research Council Schizophrenia Research Unit, 53-59 (September 1991).
EISENBRUCH, I.M. - "The Mental Health of Children and Families in Cambodia Today", in International Child Mental Health 3(1): 13-14 (1991).
GILLBANK, L. "Field Naturalists in Victoria's Alps", in Victorian Naturalist 107: 165-173 (1990).2
GILLBANK, L. - "Ferdinand Mueller in Gippsland", in Gippsland Heritage Journal 10: 3-10 (1991).
GILLBANK, L. - "CSIR Research Comes to Armidale", in Armidale and District Historical Society Journal 34: 101-108 (1991).
GILLESPIE, R. - "Accounting for Lead Poisoning: The Medical Politics of Occupational Health", in Social History 15: 303-331 (1990).
HOME, R.W. - "Sutherland, William", in Australian Dictionary of Biography 12: 141-142 (1990).
HUTCHISON, K.R. - "Dormitive Virtues, Scholastic Qualities, and the New Philosophies", in History of Science 29: 245-278 (1991).
HUTCHISON, K.R. - "Individualism, Causal location, and the Eclipses of Scholastic Philosophies", in Social Studies of Science, 21: 321-350 (1991).
KUAH, K.E. - "Buddhism, Moral Education and Nation-Building in Singapore", in Pacific Viewpoint 32(1): 24-42 (May 1991).
FACULTY OF ARTS
LE GRAND, H.E. - "Pionnier mais pas héros", in Alfred Wegener: La dèrive des continents (Les cahiers de Science et Vie: Les grands controverses scientifiques), 4: 76-81 (1991).
MAROSKE, S. - "Planting the Melbourne General Cemetery: The
contribution of Ferdinand von Mueller", in Australian Garden History, 2(5): 3-7 (1991).
SAPP, J. - "Where the Truth Lies", in Trends in Genetics, 7: 310-311 (1991).
SAPP, J. - "Symbiosis in Evolution: An Origin Story", in Endocytobiology and Cell Research, 7: 5-36 (1991).
SAPP, J. - Review of Mark Adams, ed., The Wellborn Science: Eugenics in Germany, France, Brazil, and Russia, Oxford University Press, New York: 1990, in Journal of the History of Biology, 24: 165-167 (1991).
THESES PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES Doctor of Philosophy
JAMES, P. - The social relations of nationalism and the nation-state.
LI, Y. - The spread and influence of Western modern science and technology in China
Master of Arts
BUBANDT, N.O. - The SOA. The organisation of political and social space in North Moluccas
GEORGE, A. - The concept of social justice in contemporary economic thought
KING, W. - Sellafield and childhood cancer: Scientific controversy and rhetoric
LECKEY, M. - Quantum mechanics and the consilience of inductions SHARPE, A. - Tectonostrategraphic tenanes on the west coast of North America: A modification of plate tectonics theory
WALLACE, R. - Amateurs vs. professionals in the history of Australian ornithology
THESES IN PROGRESS
Doctor of Philosophy
BUCHANAN, R. - The MMPI and personality assessment in American clinical psychology 1930-1965
BUTCHER, B. - The reception and impact of Darwinism in Australia 1860-1900
CADDICK, A. - The reproductive technologies and woman's body
COTTON, P. - A social and theoretical analysis of the naturalistic and interpretive paradigms in clinical psychology
CRONIN, M. - The character of civility: an essay on the social and political thought of Max Weber
HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (and ANTHROPOLOGY)
De
BONDY, E. -
Women as Patrons: Women as Clients. Female identity ina
small French Provincial TownGANGULY-SCRASE, R. -
Hemanata Sarkar Lane: The ethnography of an urban settlementGILL, G. -
Media and cultural symbolismGIUSTI, W.L. -
Analysing socio-cognitive research networks for biomedical researchpolicy
GREIG, D.N. -
Deinstitutionalisation of the mentally ill: policies and practiceHAZELGROVE, J. -
Breaking the spirit: the cultural context of English spiritualism 1870-1945HILL, F.E. -
Comparative study of two peasant villages undergoing sudden transition from subsistence farming to urbanised livingHOLMES, D. -
Post-structuralism as ideologyHUMPHERY, J.K. -
Social history of post-war Australian culture and the notion of individualismHUTNYK, J. -
Fieldwork debates and theory: With reference to popular culture studies in IndiaIMBERGER, H. -
Interpretation, understanding and rationality in the social sciencesJACKSON, C.S.N. -
History of physics: challenges to the earth sciencesKASAPGIL, A. -
Change and persistence in Eastern Anatolia: Can Shawak Nomadism survive?KING, W. -
The controversy over nuclear power and childhood cancer 1985-90MCCANN, D. -
Michael White and his contributions to cytogenetics and evolutionary theoryMCLAREN, D. -
The role of agricultural and scientific institutions in colonial AustraliaMALIKOTSINAS, A. -
Realist philosophy and the interpretation of quantum mechanicsNAYLER,
M. -
Theories of muscle function in the late seventeenth centuryPARK, H.J. -
The creation - science controversy in AmericaROBIN, E. -
The impact in Victoria of the rise in environmental consciousness: The Little Desert affair and its consequencesSCRIVA, T. -
Rationality and modernitySHARPE,
A. -
Geo-politics and the sinking of the geosynclinal theorySHERRATT, T. -
Atomic energy in Australia 1945-1953STEVENSON, M. -
State initiated change among the Tibetans of Qinghai ProvinceSYSAK, J. -
The natural philosophy. of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTAKE, H. -
Reactions to social change and development in a Japanese communityMaster of Arts
ALVAREZ, J. -
Womenin
scienceANDERSON, W. -
The great white experiment: medical science, race and the Australian tropics 1902-1920CIARKE, S. -
Functional explanation in the social sciencesCOLLINS, Y.M.J. -
The state of people's health in Bendigo 1851-1907FACULTY OF ARTS
CONDYLIS, D. - The significance of extra-phenomenological and non- positivistic philosophies and science in the formation of H. Brock's
"The Death of Virgil"
CONEY, C. - Habermas, Lacan and Foucault on Freud's role in the 20th century "language revolution"
GLEESON, J.U. - Scientific centres of calculation: Science of the environment and Victorian science policy 1989/90
HEATH, G. - Hermeneutics and objectivity in the social sciences LEE, S-I. - Social impact of tourism in Singapore
LI, K. - CuItural communication in China: A case study of family planning
LYNCH, M. - Heidegger on Being
MCCLURE, R.J. - The dental profession in Victoria
MULCAHY, D. - Information technology and the construction of self/culture
SAVAGE, A. - The impact of aid and AIDS on women's health in the Lao Pdr (Laos)
STEPHENSON, G. - Scientific credit and rationalisation of resources in scientific research
SWANCOTT, M.W.L. - History of anthropology in Australia
VAKKAS, S. - The sociology of science and the controversy over theories of mass extinction of species
WILSON, A. - Theory of scientific knowledge
Master of Science
KARAMARKOS, K. - The rhetorical character of geological texts MARTIN, I. - What is stress? Endocrinology versus Psychology RATHBONE, D.A. - Theories of the subject and the possibility of machine consciousness
SUTHERLAND, W. - Bell-type inequalities in physics
SUBSTANTIAL GRANTS RECEIVED
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - Ferdinand von Mueller: Scientific and Intellectual Life in Nineteenth-Century Australia.
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL - Modern Geological Controversies: Social and Cognitive Factors in Theory Choice and Theory Change.
IAN POTTER FOUNDATION - Developing Spencer Project.
MUSEUM OF VICTORIA COUNCIL - Developing Spencer Project.