Howard I.  Kushner, Ph.D.

Howard I. Kushner, Ph.D.


Howard I. Kushner is the Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science & Society Emeritus at Emory University and John D. Adams Professor of History Emeritus at San Diego State University. A visiting scholar in the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California-San Diego, he is the author of A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome and American Suicide: A Psychocultural Exploration. His new book is On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History.