Publications
Books by Jonathan M. Metzl
What We’ve Become
Living and Dying in a Country of Arms
IN STORES NOW
“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.”
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.
Key Publications
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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
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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.
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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/
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Metzl JM. What Guns Mean: the symbolic lives of firearms. Palgrave Communications/Nature, 2019:4.
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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
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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.
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Podcast: ‘AJPH July 2018: Gun Violence: What Researchers and Gun Owners Can Do,” source.
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Metzl, JM, Hansen H. Structural Competency and Psychiatry. JAMA Psychiatry 2018 Feb 1;75(2):115-116.
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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.
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Metzl JM, Petty JP. Integrating Structural Competency Into an Innovative Pre-Health Curriculum at Vanderbilt University. Academic Medicine 92(3):354-359, March 2017.
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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
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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.
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Metzl JM. Metzl Responds, Seasonal Influence on Mass Shootings. Am J Public Health: May 2016, Vol. 106, No. 5, pp. 15-17.
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Metzl JM, MacLeish, KT. Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms. Am J Public Health. 2015;105(2):240-249.
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Metzl, JM and Hansen, HH. Structural Competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality. Social Science & Medicine 2014, 103: 126-133.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Select Media: Regular Contributor, Co-host, & Source
Regular contributor, MSNBC (re: gun policy, race in America)
Regular contributor, CNN (re: gun policy)
Regular contributor, France 24 (re: US gun policy).
Regular source, The Washington Post (re: guns, race, health)
Regular contributor, The Takeaway (re: US gun policy)
Regular co-host, Indisputable, The Young Turks Network
Regular contributor, NBCLX
Op Eds / Essays
IN STORES NOW
Order Dying of Whiteness
Order Protest Psychosis
Order On the Poetics and Politics of Health