Search for dissertations about: "STS"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 89 swedish dissertations containing the word STS.
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11. Making Death Matter : A Feminist Technoscience Study of Alzheimer's Sciences in the Laboratory
Abstract : This thesis is a contribution to feminist laboratory studies and a critical engagement with the natural sciences, or more precisely research on the biochemical workings and deadly relations of Alzheimer’s disease emanating from a year of field work in a Drosophila fly lab. The natural sciences have been a point of fascination within the field of gender studies for decades. READ MORE
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12. Waves of controversy : gene technology in Dagens nyheter 1973-96
Abstract : This thesis investigates the public debate on gene technology, between 1973 and 1996, in one of the agenda-setting media in Sweden, Dagens Nyheter. Gene technology is one of the latest controversial technologies which characterise our present Western society. READ MORE
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13. Creative Disability Classification Systems : The case of Greece, 1990-2015
Abstract : Disability classification systems belong to the core of states’ social/disability policies through which persons with disabilities are classified as eligible or ineligible for having access to disability allowances. The study of disability classification systems has stimulated the interest of several scholars from the broader area of disability studies. READ MORE
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14. Charge Density Waves and Alkali Metal Intercalation in Layered Materials
Abstract : In this thesis the following issues are discussed: 1. Fundamental properties of two polytypes of TaS2 studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS). 2. The influence of Na intercalation on charge density waves (CDW's) in 1T-VSe2 and 4Hb-TaS2 studied by STM and STS. READ MORE
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15. The Swedish Abortion Pill : Co-Producing Medical Abortion and Values, ca. 1965–1992
Abstract : Abortion pills have had a large impact. Since their introduction to national markets in the 1990s, scholars have examined how abortion pills have changed medical practices, illegal abortion, and reproductive activism. What has gone unstudied, however, has been the development and the history of abortion pills. READ MORE