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May 2018
LECTURE: Structural Competency, 5 Years On: Tracking a New Medical Approach to Stigma and Inequality
This talk described a shift in medical education away from approaches to…
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TRAINING: Policy Driven Healthcare: Implications for Practice, Research and Education for Minority Populations
June 28th – July 1st, 2018 - TRAINING: Policy Driven Healthcare: Implications for Practice, Research and Education for Minority Populations
Find out more »TRAINING: Policy Driven Healthcare: Implications for Practice, Research and Education for Minority Populations
June 28th – July 1st, 2018: Dr. Metzl will be participating in…
Find out more »August 2018
PANEL CHAIR/PRESENTATION: Guns in Trump’s America
Sat, August 11, 10:30am to 12:10pm - Guns and Violence in Trump's America
Find out more »PLENARY PANEL CHAIR/PRESENTATION: Feeling Race in the Public Eye: Media and Race during the Trump Era
August 13th, 2018 - Plenary Panel Chair/Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting
Find out more »INVITED LECTURE/MASTER CLASS: “How to Talk About Guns in the Classroom” at University of Illinois
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Find out more »September 2018
LECTURE: Dying of Whiteness The Mortal Politics of U.S. White Supremacy in the Age of Trump
Staying healthy and recovering from sickness comes at a price. Staying ill means losing time, losing money, losing productivity. Seeing doctors, buying drugs, investing in future health, all cost money.
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DISCUSSION: Mental Illness, Race, and Incarceration – Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall
In Conversation with MHS Chair Jonathan Metzl, Responses by Leshuan Oliver of Campus Precinct & Community Relations, Vanderbilt University Police Department, Derek Griffith,Professor of MHS and Director, Center for Research on Men’s Health, Student Q&A
Find out more »KEYNOTE: American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, “American Firearms and Mass Shootings: Mental Illness, Politics, and Policies,”
Jonathan Metzl addresses four assumptions that frequently arise in the aftermath of mass-shootings in the United States:
(1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that a psychiatric diagnosis can predict
gun crime before it happens, (3) that shootings are the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control won’t prevent another Newtown.
November 2018
INVITED LECTURE: The Politics of Health
Slought and the Health Ecologies Lab are pleased to announce The Politics of Health, a conversation with Jonathan Metzl and others about the social and political construction of "health" on Thursday, November 8, 2018 from 6:30-8:30pm.
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