Howard Kushner
Ph.D., History, Cornell University, 1970

Research Interests

History of Medicine and Disease, Psychiatry and Neurology, and Addiction

Selected Recent Publications

• Kushner, Taking Biology Seriously: The Next Task for Historians of Addiction?” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 80 (Spring, 2006): 115-143.
• Howard I. Kushner & Claire E. Sterk. “The Limits of Social Capital: Durkheim, Suicide, and Social Cohesion.” Amer. Journal of Public Health. 95 (July, 2005), 1139-1143.
• Howard I. Kushner, Christena H. Turner, John F. Bastian, & Jane C. Burns. “The Narratives of Kawasaki Disease” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, July, 2004, 78: 410-439.
• Colin Talley, Howard I. Kushner, & Claire E. Sterk, “Lung Cancer, Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and Medicine, 1948-1964,” Journal of the History of Medicine. 2004, 59:329-373.
• H. I. Kushner, J. F. Bastian, C. H. Turner, and J. C. Burns. Rethinking the Boundaries of Kawasaki Disease: Toward the Next Case Definition, Perspectives in Biology & Medicine, 46, (Spring) 2003, 216-233.
• A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 1999. [US paperback, 2000; French translation, Paris: Institut d’Edition Sanfi-Synelabo, 2001].
• American Suicide: A Psychocultural Exploration (Rutgers University Press,
  1991; Chinese translation San Min Book Co, Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan, 1997).

Courses

• Madness, Sanity, and Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Disease, History, and Culture
• History of Public Health
• History of Addiction