RISKING REPRODUCTION:REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG WOMEN WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASEbyPAULA THOMPSON ROSSAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Heather DillawayMajor: SociologyDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyReproductive health among women with sickle cell disease remains a critical gap in theliteratures on sickle cell disease, reproductive health, and women’s health. Sickle cell ...

The past two decades have witnessed a great flowering in writing about narrative and the effort by a wide variety of scholars to incorporate it into their disciplines. The study of narrative in fiction has, of course, long been central to literary theory. More recently, however, narrative study has moved out of English Departments to take on new prominence in psychology, philosophy, semiotics, ...

The advent of public sociology over the past decade represents the end of a string of crisis moments in sociology. Since the 1950s and, especially, the 1960s, sociology was argued to be in a crisis because the discipline was thought to be conservative and contributing to sustain the status quo. As a result, the 1970s witnessed a radicalization of sociology, but the 1980s saw a general decline o...