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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 invites all to attend the HTS Graduate Forum featuring:
Dr. Howard Kushner, Emory University
The Emergence of Kawasaki Disease in India: Why History (of Medicine) Matters
Dr. Howard Kushner is the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science and Society at Emory University. An historian of medicine, Kushner holds a joint appointment in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA) and in the Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Behavorial Science and Health Education. He serves as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society. Author of numerous articles on medical and social and cultural history, Kushner has published four books, including American Suicide (Rutgers University Press, 1991) and A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (Harvard University Press, 1999). Kushner also serves on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and the Journal of the History of Neuroscience.
