Jonathan Metzl

Jonathan Metzl appears in the following:

Red States, Gun Laws and a Whole Lot of Gun Violence

Thursday, April 13, 2023

We explore the sharp resistance to gun control measures in conservative states, even as guns are now the leading cause of death for children in the United States.

Racial Resentment and Public Health

Friday, March 22, 2019

How right-wing public health policies harm their supporters.

Parsing the Science on Mental Illness and Mass Shootings

Monday, February 19, 2018

When it comes to mass shootings, one expert says that a sole focus on mental health is misguided.

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Health and Morality

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Jonathan Metzl, associate professor of women's studies and psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and Anna Kirkland, associate professor of women's studies and political science at the University of Michigan, discuss health's role in our ethical landscape. They are editors of a new book, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality

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Schizophrenia and Race

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Dr. Jonathan Metzl, associate professor of psychiatry and women's studies and director of the Culture, Health, and Medicine Program at University of Michigan, talks about his new book, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease and provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to ...

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