The University of Pittsburgh’s Health Sciences Library System provides a service that might best be described as a “dissertation aggregator.”  And it’s incredible.  One could spend hours days just looking through it all.

Here is a sample of some of the material included in the latest update, all of which is available for download via ProQuest:

• Haufe, C.  (2006).  Evolutionary psychology and the future of evolutionary history.  Columbia University.
• Schuster, D. G.  (2006).  Neurasthenic nation: The medicalization of modernity in the United States, 1869–1920.  University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Sykes, B.-M.  (2006).  Questioning psychological health: Contextualizing contemporary psychological theory through historical dialogue between theologians and psychologists, 1940-1960.  University of Ottawa.

For future reference, the link has been added to the sidebar, listed under “resources” as “Recent Dissertations in the History of Psychiatry and Psychology.”

They also aggregate related dissertations in the history of science:

• Clift, K. A.  (2006).  Exploring the transition from a pre-modern to modern conceptualization of the natural world: Implications for a more connected approach to contemporary education.  University of Oklahoma.
• Gillespie, J. J.  (2006).  The law, sociology, and strategy of an illegitimate organizational field: Cocaine, 1880–1930.  Northwestern University.
• Stassi, F. J.  (2006).  A history of the development of the California Science Content Standards: 1990-2005.  University of Southern California.

…the history of medicine and health care:

• Kilbane, N. C.  (2006).  A tug from the jug: Drinking and temperance in American genre painting, 1830-1860.  Ohio State University.
• Coutinho, F. M.  (2006).  A caregiver perspective: Adaptation after stroke.  Texas Woman’s University.

…and the history of women’s health:

• Gueli, C.  (2006).  “Girls on the loose”? Women’s wartime adventures in the nation’s capital, 1941-1945.  American University.
• Gwekwerere, Y. N.  (2006).  Response to science education reforms: The case of three science education doctoral programs in the United States.  Michigan State University.
• Lee-Keller, H. S. B.-J.  (2006).  Working matters: Women’s work and culture in the United States, 1868–1898.  University of California, San Diego.
• Milliard, S.  (2006).  The lived experiences of alcoholism in older women.  Capella University.

Neat.

-JTB.