Newcomb Archives
Joan Bennett: Research Papers
93-0006
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Newcomb Archives
- Creator - Associated name
- Bennett, Joan
- Title
- Joan Bennett: Research Papers (public)
- ID
- 93-0006
- Date [inclusive]
- 1972-1984
- Extent
- 2.0 Cubic feet 2 boxes
- Language
- English
Scope and Contents note
Joan Bennett, a biologist, taught at Newcomb from 1972 to 1984. During that time, she also taught a number of courses relating to women in science, women's health, and other topics. The papers in this collection concern those courses, and include research papers and essays.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Newcomb Archives
Newcomb Center for Research on WomenSeltzer-Gerard Reading Room
62 Newcomb Place
New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
504 865 5762
vorhoff@tulane.edu
Conditions Governing Use note
The papers are open only for those interested in student work from this period (1972-1984) and/or from biology and women's studies courses.
Controlled Access Headings
Occupation(s)
- Scientists
Subject(s)
- Newcomb College, Class work
Collection Inventory
Folder 1 General noteIndependent Studies H165: “The Effects of Carreageenan on the Primary Immune Response,” Spring 1972 |
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Folder 2 General noteBiology 103: Man, Heredity and Society Term Papers: --“A Study of Schizophrenia as a Disease with a Genetic Component with Relation to its Psychological and Environmental Aspects,” 1972 --“Leukemia,”1972 --“Down’s Syndrome,” 1972 --“Tay-Sach’s Disease,” 1972 --“Malnurtition and Its Effect on Intelligence,” 1972 --“Schizophrenia: The Influences of Genetics,” 1972 --“Sickle Cell Anemia,” 1972 --“Mongolism,” 1972 --“Mendel and Genetics,” 1972 --“Sickle Cell Anemia: Causes, Effects, and Efforts to Releive and Cure It,” 1972 --“Huntington’s Cholera,” 1972 --“Schizophrenia: A Disease with a Genetic Component," 1972 --“Heredity and Musical Abilities,” 1974 --“Muscular Dystrophy,” 1974 --“Sickle Cell Anemia,” 1974 --“Cancer: Its Genetics and Hereditary Influence,” 1975 --“An Inquiry Concerning Human Genetic Engineering,” 1975 --“The Causes and Effects of Obesity,” 1975 --“The Pill or the IUD?” 1995 --“Acupuncture,” 1975 --“The Placenta and Fetal Development,” 1975 --“Nucleocytoplasmic Interactions,” 1975 --“The Responsibilities of Genetic Engineering,” 1975 --“Gout,” 1972 --“Insulin,” 1972 --“Hemophilia: Its Sociological and Physiological Aspects,” 1972 --“The XYY Anomaly,” 1980 --“The Influence of Cultural Factors on Genetic Characteristics of South American Indians,” 1980 --“Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia,” 1980 --“Steroid Hormones and Regulation of Gene Expression,” 1980 --“High Yield Isolation Nuclei from Plant Protoplasts,” 1980 --“The Epstein-Barr Virus and Its Associated Diseases,” 1980 --“The Lyon Hypothesis: A Method of Dosage Compensation in the Mammalian Genome,” 1980 --“Multiple Births in Humans,” n.d. --“Genetic Consideration in Breast Cancer,” n.d. --“Radiation, Genes, and Genesis,” n.d. --“The Future Evolution of Man: Genetic Engineering,” n.d. --“Genetics and Human Evolution,” n.d. --“Sickle Cell Anemia,” n.d. --“Rheumatic Heart Disease,” n.d. --“Thalassemia or Cooley’s Anemia,” n.d. --“Siamese Twins,” n.d. --“The Behavioral Genetics of the Schizophrenic Syndrome,” n.d. |
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Folder 3 General noteWomen’s Colloquium 410: --“Labor for Women Only,” 1976 --“Virginia Woolf: A Study of Individualism,” 1976 --“Women in Business,” 1976 --“Dual Career Marriages: An Innovation in Family Living,” 1976 --“The Socialization of Women,” 1976 --“Effects of the Changing Role of the Woman on Her Marriage: You’ve Come A Long Way Baby,” 1976 --“Nutritional Implications of Oral Contraceptives,” 1976 --“The Image of Women on Television,” 1976 --“Sexism in Children’s Literature” by Lori Melin, April 1976 --“Abortion on Demand,” 1976 --“Women in Primitive Society: A Brief Cross-Cultural Study of the Socio-Economic and Religious Role of Women in Undeveloped Communities,” 1976 --“IUD: Intrauterine Danger,” 1976 --“Abortion on Demand,” 1976 --“A Portrait of Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946,” 1976 --“Women in in the Clergy,” 1976 --“Dieting and the Menstrual Cycle,” 1976 --“The Role of Women As Seen in Minor Classic Literature,” 1976 --“Women and Alcohol,” 1976 --“Women in Advertising,” 1976 --“Rape: Attitudes and Myths,” 1976 --“The Status of Women in China," 1976 --“Position of Women in Ancient Athens,” 1976 --“Problems of the Middle Aged Woman,” 1976 --“Welfare and Women,” 1976 --“The Rise of the Movement for Men’s Liberation,” 1976 --“Some Observations of Anorexia Nervosa: A Look Into its History, Causes, Symptoms, Phobias, Behavior, Treatment,” 1976 --“Women in the Kibbutz,” 1976 --“The Image of Woman: A Discussion,” 1976 --“How to Succeed as a Newcomb Bitch? Observations and a Personal History of a Newcomb Student,” 1976 |
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Folder 4 General noteBiology of Women 310, Spring 1976: --“Menopause,” 1976 --“Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Diethylstilbestrol,” 1976 --“Cancer of the Endometrium,” 1976 --“The Emotional and Psychological Effects of Abortion,” 1976 --“Prescription Drugs and Their Side Effects,” 1976 --“Anorexia Nervosa: The Gross Effects of Dieting on the Adolescent Female,” 1976 --“Pseudohermaphroditism,” 1976 --“Menopause,” 1976 --“Self-Help: A New Idea in Women’s Health Care,” 1976 --“DES: A Cloudy Past, A Shaky Present, and an Uncertain Future,” 1976 --“An Infant’s Cry: Abnormal or Normal?” 1976 --“Menstruation and the Result of its Negative History,” 1976 --“Side Effects of Short and Long Term Use of Oral Contraceptives,” 1976 --“An Informative Study of Abortion,” 1976 --“The Case of Deithylstilbestrol,” 1976 --"Abortion: Facts and Experience,” 1976 --“Abortion,” 1974 --“Alternatives with Childbirth,” April 1976 --“Pseudocyesis: The Interaction of Psychology and Physiology,” 1976 --“Breast Cancer,” 1976 --“A New Birth Control Method: The Ovulation Method,” 1976 --“Diethylstilbestrol: Its Uses and Implications in Vaginal Adenosis,” 1976 --“Syphilis,” 1976 --“Childbirth the Natural Way,” 1976 --“The Male as an Active Participant in the Prevention of Pregnancy: A Look at Some of the Dangers of Currently-Used Contraceptives,” 1976 --“Transsexualism: The Conversion Operation,” 1976 --“Sex Change: Female Transsexuals,” 1976 --“Sex Determination,” 1976 --“Anorexia Nervosa,” 1976 --“Menstrual Customs Around the World,” 1976 --“Myth and Superstition Surrounding the Reproduction Phenomenon,” 1976 --“Dieting and the Menstrual Cycle,” 1976 --“Artificial Insemination,” 1976 --“Female Orgasmic Response,” 1976 --“The Menopause: Its Lasting Effect,” 1976 --“Lamaze,” 1976 --“Hysterectomy: Explanations and Arguments," 1976 --“Should Women Continue Using the Birth Control Pill?” 1976 --“Women in Medicine,” 1976 --“Prostaglandins,” 1976 --“Stilbestrol and its Connection with Vaginal Adenosis and Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma,” 1976 --“Breast Cancer,” 1976 --“Menopause: The Physiological and Physchological Affect Upon the Middle Aged Woman,” 1976 --“Ectopic Pregnancies,” 1976 --“Women and the Pill,” 1976 --“The Prominent Facts, Precautions, and Procedures on Breast Cancer All Women Should Know,” 1976 --“A Look at Menopause,” 1976 --“Ovulation: Luteinizing Hormone and the Follicle Releasing Mechanism,” 1976 --“Menopause is Alive and Well and Living in… Men,” 1976 --“Hurrah for the Pill,” 1976 --“Premenstrual Psychosis,” 1976 --“The RH Negative Factor,” 1976 --“The Infant of the Diabetic Mother,” 1976 --“Breast Plastic Surgery,” 1976 --“A Pathological View of Anorexia Nervosa,” 1976 --“The Leboyer Method: A Critical Essay" 1976 --“Social/Psychological Aspects of Breast Cancer,” 1976 --“Ectopic Pregnancies,” 1976 --“Cystitis,” 1976 --“A Brief History of Abortion,” 1976 --“Abortion: Up to the First 12 Weeks,” 1976 --“The Change of Life,” 1976 --“The Alternative to Traditional Childbirth: The Lamaze Method,” 1976 --“Cystic Disease of the Breast,” 1976 --“Why Women Should Have More Control Over Their Bodies,” 1976 --“The Diseases Caused by Abnormal Thyroid,” 1976 --“The Tragedy of Diethylstibesterol,” 1976 --“The I.U.D.: Alternative to the Pill?” 1976 --“The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,” 1976 --“Venereal Disease,” 1976 --“A Victim’s View of Rape,” 1976 --“An Idiopathic Disease: Toxemia of Pregnancy” 1976 --“The Intrauterine Device,” 1976 --“Women and Athletics,” 1976 --“Customs of Pregnancy and Childbirth,” 1976 --“A Look at Some Prenatal Influences,” 1976 --“Myths of Menstruation,” 1976 --“I.U.D.” 1976 --“Infertility in Women,” 1976 --“What is Mongolism? An Inquiry into the Dynamics of Down’s Syndrome, Its Affects, Causes and Treatment,” 1976 --“Women and Language,” 1976 --“Diethylstilbestrol: Its History, Uses, and Relationship to Vaginal Lesions and/or Cancer in Offspring,” 1976 --“Mammoplasty: Plastic Surgery of the Breasts with Special Reference to Silicone,” 1976 --“One Method of Contraception: The Pill,” April 1976 --“Sterilization: Another Reason,” 1976 --“Nutrition for Health,” 1976 --“Birth Control and Family Planning in The People’s Republic of China,” 1976 --“Menopause: Its Present Conception,” 1976 --“Kleinefelter’s Syndrome and Turner’s Syndrome,” 1976 --“A Study of Hysterectomies,” 1976 --“Postpartum Depression,” 1976 --“Ins and Outs of Dieting,” 1976 --“Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2,” 1976 --“Hysterectomy: Warranted or Unwarranted?” 1976 --“The Psychical and Emotional Effects of Menopause,” 1976 --“The Use and Implications of Genetic Counseling in Modern Medicine,” 1976 --“The Low Incidence of Heart Disease in Women,” 1976 --“Toxemia of Pregnancy: A Case History,” 1976 --“Biological and Cultural Conflicts in the Female Menstrual Cycle,” n.d. --“Mammary Carcinoma,” 1976 --“The Effects of DES in Relation to Vaginal Cancer and the Morning After Pill," 1976 --“Why Natural Childbirth: Reasons, Methods, and Psychological Benefits," 1976 --“Artificial Insemination,” 1976 --“Pain is Not an Essential Feature of Delivery,” 1976 --“Estrogen and Menopause,” 1976 --“Anorexia Nervosa: The Skinny Disease, A Psychocultural Phenomenon,” 1976 --“Delivery Procedures in the United States: Good or Bad?” 1976 --First Examination, Spring Semester 1976; Second Examination, Spring 1976 |
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Folder 5 General noteBiology 103 Man, Heredity and Society; Spring 1975: --“Deaf-Mutes,” 1975 --“The New Outlook on Huntington’s Chorea,” 1975 --“The Effects of Maternal Smoking on Pregnancy,” 1975 --“Schizophrenia,” 1975 --“The Kidneys and My Own Battle with Them,” 1975 --“Muscular Dystrophy,” 1975 |
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Folder 6 General noteBiology 103 Man, Heredity and Society; Spring 1978: --“Sickle Cell Anemia,” 1978 --“Sex Chromosome Aberrations,” 1978 --“Conjoined Twins,” 1978 --Second Semester Exam |
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Folder 7 General noteBiology 103 Genetic Engineering: --“Thrombasthenia,” n.d. --“Hereditary Implications of Intelligence,” 1972 --“Population Boom or Boomerang,” n.d. --“Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn,” 1972 --“Analysis and Genetic Aspects of Color Vision Deficienceies,” 1972 --“A Discussion of Dystrophic Diseases with Special Attention to Pseudohypertrophic Dystrophy," 1972 --“Lactose,” 1972 --“Genocide Programs of World War II,” 1972 --“Mental Retardation,” 1972 --“Cystic Fibrosis,” 1972 --“The Problems of Syphilis 1494-1940,” 1974 |
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Folder 8 General noteBiology 103, Spring 1980: --“Birth” 1980 --“Prenatal Influences [on] Child Development,” 1980 |
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Folder 9 General noteGenetic Engineering Colloquium 404, Spring 1983: “Eugenics: A Look into the Past, Present and the Future,” 1983 |
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Folder 10 General noteBiology 103 Man, Heredity and Society, Spring 1984: --“Atherosclerosis and Coronary Heart Disease: The Genetic Link,” 1984 --“Schizophrenia: Sociological, Biological or Hereditary?” 1984 --“Sickle-Cell Anemia,” 1984 --“DNA: The Source of Inheritance,” 1984 --“The Rh Factor,” 1984 --“The A’s E’s Eyes O’s and U’s of Genetic Eye Disease Retinoblastoma,” 1984 --“Interferons and Cancer,” 1984 --“Obesity,” 1984 --“Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution: The Theory That Shook the World,” n.d. --“Heredity Factors and Lung Cancer,” 1984 --“The Causes and Cures of the Hereditary Disease Spina Bifida,” 1984 --“Cancer Causes and Treatments,” 1984 --“Diabetes,” 1984 --“Drugs and Pregnancy,” 1984 --“Hemophilia A,” 1984 --“Sickle-Cell Anemia: The Hidden Disease,” 1984 --“The Lethal Legacy of Huntington’s Disease,” 1984 --“Albinism and the Jemez Indians,” 1984 --“Color Blindness,” 1984 --“Aids: Mystery Disease of the 80’s,” 1984 --“Knee Injuries in Athletics,” 1984 --“Diabetes,” 1984 --Final Examinations |
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