Jonathan Metzl
Jonathan Metzl | |
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Metzl in 2019 | |
| Born | Jonathan Michel Metzl December 12, 1964 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Missouri, Kansas City Stanford University University of Michigan |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | American studies Psychiatry Sociology |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
| Thesis | The Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Domna C. Stanton |
| Website | www |
Jonathan Michel Metzl (born December 12, 1964) is an American psychiatrist and author. He is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he is also Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. Metzl is an expert on gun violence and mental illness, which is the subject of his latest book, What We've Become, Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. He is the author of several other books, including The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness.