Kroker, Kenton -

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Kenton
Last Name: 
Kroker
Department / Program: 
Science and Technology Studies, York
University Affiliation: 
York University
Phone: 
4167362100
Extension: 
30120
Email Address: 
kkroker@yorku.ca
Area of Research
Subject: 
Medicine
Geographical Region: 
Europe
North America
Time Period: 
20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of Sleep Research; 20th-century epidemics; emerging diseases
Academics
PHD Program: 
History of Science
PHD University: 
IHPST/University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2000
Major Publications: 
"The Sleep of Others and the Transformations of Sleep Research" (UToronto Press 2007), author "Crafting Immunity: Working Histories of Clinical Immunology" (Ashgate 2008), co-editor (with Jennifer Keelan and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar) Epidemic Encephalitis & American Neurology, 1919-40, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 78 (2004): 108-47.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
History of Science Society, American Association for the History of Medicine, Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Science, Canadian Association for Medical History, Society for the Social Studies of Science
Courses Taught: 
"Biomedicine in Sociohistorical Context," "Scientific Change," Seminar in Science & Technology Studies" (all undergrad) "Knowing Dreaming," and "Epidemics in the Twentieth Century" (graduate)