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David S. Jones
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E51-290 |
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617-258-6255 |
| Email |
dsjones@mit.edu |
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| Publications | http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/JONRAT.html |
David Jones completed his A.B. at Harvard College in 1993 (History and Science), and then pursued both a Ph.D. in History of Science at Harvard University and an M.D. at Harvard Medical School, receiving both in 2001. After an internship in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital, Boston, he trained as a psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He joined the MIT faculty in 2005. He also works as a staff psychiatrist in the Psychiatric Emergency Service at Cambridge Hospital, and as a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
His initial research focused on epidemics among American Indians, resulting in a book (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600, published by Harvard University Press in 2004) and several articles. Jones has also examined human subjects research, Cold War medicine, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and the history of cardiac surgery. His current research explores the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics, attempting to understand how cardiologists and cardiac surgeons implement new technologies of cardiac revascularization. Professor Jones also directs the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology, and Medicine at MIT.
updated 06/25/2007