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Books by Jonathan M. Metzl

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“A penetrating look at our failed attempts to curb gun violence….Metzl’s argument is consistently persuasive….A powerful, convincing effort to reframe the discussion around gun control and its discontents.”

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Dying of Whiteness

How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland

New Edition Available February 4, 2024

A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences — even for the white voters they promise to help.

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The Protest Psychosis

How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

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Prozac on the Couch

Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

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Against Health

How Health Became the New Morality

Keywords for Health Humanities

Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl and Priscilla Wald

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On the Poetics and Politics of Health

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The Protest Psychosis & the Future of Equity & Diversity Efforts in American Psychiatry

Daedalus

Citation

The Protest Psychosis & the Future of Equity & Diversity Efforts in American Psychiatry. (2023, November 20). American Academy of Arts & Sciences. https://www.amacad.org/publica...

Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence

The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health

Citation

Metzl JM, Pettis P, McKay T, Piemonte J. Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence. In Halliwell and Jones, eds, The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022: 493-510.

Suicide, and Dying, of Whiteness

Gun Violence in America (ABCT.org, New York)

Citation

Metzl JM. Suicide, and Dying, of Whiteness. In Hitching, R.(Ed.) (2022). Gun Violence in America. ABCT.org. New York. Available at https://www.abct.org/featured-articles/gun-violence-briefing-book/

Structural competency and the future of firearm research

Social Science & Medicine

Citation

Metzl JM, McKay T, Piemonte J. Structural competency and the future of firearm research. Social Science & Medicine. 2021 Volume 277, 113879, ISSN 0277-9536. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113879

Press release

Citation

Metzl JM. Press release. Available at https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/04/15/new-research-framework-proposes-equitable-approach-to-preventing-gun-violence/

Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Future of Psychiatric Research into American Gun Violence

Harv Rev Psychiatry

Citation

Metzl JM, Piemonte J, McKay T. Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Future of Psychiatric Research into American Gun Violence. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2021 Jan-Feb 01;29(1):81-89. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0000000000000280. PMID: 33417376.

Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for a Structurally Competent Health Care System

JAMA

Citation

Metzl JM, Maybank A, De Maio F. Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Need for a Structurally Competent Health Care System. JAMA. 2020;324(3):231–232. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.9289

Contradictory Choices: When key political issues are linked with long-held identities, it is hard not to respond emotionally

RSA Journal

Citation

Metzl JM. Contradictory Choices: When key political issues are linked with long-held identities, it is hard not to respond emotionally. RSA Journal. Aug 2019. Available at https://medium.com/rsa-journal/contradictory-choices-fa94aa2cc035

What Guns Mean: the symbolic lives of firearms

Palgrave Communications/Nature

Citation

Metzl JM. What Guns Mean: the symbolic lives of firearms. Palgrave Communications/Nature, 2019:4.

Social Science and the Future of Gun Research

SSRC Items Series

Citation

Metzl JM. Social Science and the Future of Gun Research. SSRC Items Series. November, 2018. Available at https://items.ssrc.org/social-science-and-the-future-of-gun-research/?platform=hootsuite

Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United States

American Journal of Public Health

Citation

Metzl, JM. “Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health 108 (7): 864-65, July 2018, source.

Gun Violence: What Researchers and Gun Owners Can Do

Podcast

Citation

Podcast: ‘AJPH July 2018: Gun Violence: What Researchers and Gun Owners Can Do,” source.

Structural Competency and Psychiatry

JAMA Psychiatry

Citation

Metzl, JM, Hansen H. Structural Competency and Psychiatry. JAMA Psychiatry 2018 Feb 1;75(2):115-116.

Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education

Social Science and Medicine

Citation

Metzl, JM, Petty JP, Olowojobab, OV. Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education. Social Science and Medicine. Volume 199, February 2018, Pages 189-201.

Integrating Structural Competency Into an Innovative Pre-Health Curriculum at Vanderbilt University

Academic Medicine

Citation

Metzl JM, Petty JP. Integrating Structural Competency Into an Innovative Pre-Health Curriculum at Vanderbilt University. Academic Medicine 92(3):354-359, March 2017.

Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Students

Journal of Medical Humanities

Citation

Petty JP, Metzl JM, Keys M. Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Students. Journal of Medical Humanities. (2017) 38: 459, doi:10.1007/s10912-017-9449-1. Available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-017-9449-1

Conflations of Marital Status and Sanity: Implicit Heterosexist Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Physician-Dictated Charts at a Midwestern Medical Center

Yale J Biol Med

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Metzl, JM, McLelland, S, Bergner E. Conflations of Marital Status and Sanity: Implicit Heterosexist Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Physician-Dictated Charts at a Midwestern Medical Center. Yale J Biol Med. 2016 Jun; 89(2): 247–254.

Metzl Responds, Seasonal Influence on Mass Shootings

Am J Public Health

Citation

Metzl JM. Metzl Responds, Seasonal Influence on Mass Shootings. Am J Public Health: May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5, pp. 15-17.

Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms

Am J Public Health

Citation

Metzl JM, MacLeish, KT. Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(2):240-249.

Structural Competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality

Social Science & Medicine

Citation

Metzl, JM and Hansen, HH. Structural Competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality. Social Science & Medicine 2014, 103: 126-133.

Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge

American Medical Association Journal of Ethics

Citation

Metzl, JM and Roberts, D. Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 2014, 16(9): 674-90.

Controllin’ the Planet: the Autobiographical Schizophrenia of Hip Hop

Transition: Publication of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Citation

Metzl, JM. Controllin’ the Planet: the Autobiographical Schizophrenia of Hip Hop. Transition: Publication of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University 2014, 115: 23-33.

Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach

Academic Medicine

Citation

Donald, Cameron A. MS; DasGupta, Sayantani MD, MPH; Metzl, Jonathan M. MD, PhD; Eckstrand, Kristen L. MD, PhD. Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach. Academic Medicine 92(3):345-350, March 2017. Available at http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/publishahead/Queer_Frontiers_in_Medicine___A_Structural.98310.aspx

Well-Being and Being Safe: Do Guns Change Social Interactions?

Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education’s Greater Purposes

Citation

Metzl JM. Well-Being and Being Safe: Do Guns Change Social Interactions? In Harward, D, ed, Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education’s Greater Purposes. AAC&U Press, 2016. Available at http://portal.criticalimpact.com/go/1/bfcb64a2f453f49816676d10e8679c8a/25043/dec711f9ad215360/950d4273f26380453947229f28c3afba

Race and Mental Health

Health Humanities Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press

Citation

Metzl JM. Race and Mental Health. In Tess Jones and Delise Wear, eds, Health Humanities Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015, 261-67.

Assessing the Impact of SSRI Antidepressants on Popular Notions of Women’s Depressive Illness

Social Science and Medicine

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Metzl JM, Angel, J. Assessing the Impact of SSRI Antidepressants on Popular Notions of Women’s Depressive Illness. Social Science and Medicine 2004; 58(3): 577-584.

Voyeur Nation? Changing Definitions of Voyeurism, 1950-2004

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

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Metzl JM. Voyeur Nation? Changing Definitions of Voyeurism, 1950-2004. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2004; 12(2): 127-31.

The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964-1985

Cultural Sutures: Medicine and the Media

Citation

Metzl JM: The Pharmaceutical Gaze: Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964-1985 in Friedman, ed., Cultural Sutures: Medicine and the Media, 2004 Durham: Duke University Press: 15-36.

Multiculturalism in Medicine

Literature and Medicine

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Metzl, JM, and Poirier,S. Multiculturalism in Medicine. Literature and Medicine 2004; 23(1): 6-12.

From Scopophilia to ‘Survivor’: A Brief History of Voyeurism, 1950-2004

Textual Practice

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Metzl, JM. From Scopophilia to ‘Survivor’: A Brief History of Voyeurism, 1950-2004. Textual Practice 2004; 18(3): 415-34.

Making History: Lessons from the Great Moments Series of Pharmaceutical Advertisements

Academic Medicine

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Metzl, JM, and Howell, JD. Making History: Lessons from the Great Moments Series of Pharmaceutical Advertisements. Academic Medicine 2004; 79(11): 1027-32.

Selling Sanity Through Gender: Psychiatry and the Dynamics of Pharmaceutical Advertising

Journal of Medical Humanities

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Metzl, JM. Selling Sanity Through Gender: Psychiatry and the Dynamics of Pharmaceutical Advertising. Journal of Medical Humanities 2003; 24 (1): 79-103.

Making ‘Mother’s Little Helper’: The Crisis of Psychoanalysis and the Miltown Resolution, 1954-1959

Gender and History

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Metzl, JM. Making ‘Mother’s Little Helper’: The Crisis of Psychoanalysis and the Miltown Resolution, 1954-1959. Gender and History 2003; 15 (3): 228-55.