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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The School of History, Technology and Society welcomes Columbia University Professor David Rosner on "Trials and Tribulations of an Historian in the Courtroom: The Public Health Controversy Over Lead and Vinyl."
Bio:
Dr. David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health and Professor of History at Columbia University. He received his doctorate from Harvard in the History of Science. His publications include: "Are We Ready? Public Health since 911" (2006) and "The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health" (2008). He has also co-authored and edited with Gerald Markowitz numerous books and articles. Most recently "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution" (2002).