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    Science as Diplomacy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Third Presidential Cruise of 1938.Tanfer Emin Tunc - 2024 - Isis 115 (4):738-756.
    On July 16, 1938, Franklin Delano Roosevelt boarded the USS Houston in San Diego and embarked on what would come to be known as the Third Presidential Cruise. Publicized as a presidential fishing trip, the 1938 excursion was considerably more than a summer vacation. Covering 5,888 miles in twenty-four days, it comprised fourteen stops in the territories of five different countries: Mexico, France, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Colombia. Concluding in Pensacola, Florida, after passing through the Panama Canal, it was an (...)
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    Cold War aviation: American technology transfer and the construction of Turkey's first international civilian airport in Yeşilköy, Istanbul, 1944–1953.Tanfer Emin Tunc & Gokhan Tunc - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-20.
    With the economic and political support of the United States, in July 1947, Turkey signed contracts with the Westinghouse Electric International Company and J.G. White Engineering Corporation to construct its first international civilian airport, Istanbul's Yeşilköy Airport. As this article will argue, the building of Yeşilköy (1949–53), through a partnership with two American engineering firms, is essentially an early Cold War narrative of transnational exchange involving the multidirectional flow of technical knowledge, expertise and resources between the United States and Turkey; (...)
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    Prenatal politics: fetal surgery, abortion and disability rights in the United States.Tanfer Emin Tunc - 2021 - The New Bioethics 27 (4):334-348.
    While fetal surgery—and pregnancy termination as a possible therapeutic alternative—have been examined in a number of studies, very few have addressed the issues and tensions that arise when prenat...
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    Scientific imperialism and the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project, 1935–1942.Tanfer Emin Tunc - forthcoming - History of Science.
    Between 1935 and 1942, a total of 130 men, aged seventeen to twenty-four, mostly of indigenous Hawaiian heritage, colonized Howland, Baker, and Jarvis Islands for the United States, in rotation, over the course of twenty-six expeditions. As part of the American Equatorial Islands Colonization Project (AEICP), they compiled meteorological data, observed and recorded the natural life of their surroundings, collected specimens for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, mapped the islands, and built a landing strip on Howland for Amelia Earhart. In (...)
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    Book Review: White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing by Susan Falls. [REVIEW]Tanfer Emin Tunc - 2018 - Gender and Society 32 (6):912-914.
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    Review of Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. [REVIEW]Tanfer Emin Tunc - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (3):40-41.
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