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Department of History

Jonathan Metzl

Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine,
Director, Program in Medicine, Health and Society; Professor of Psychiatry; Professor of History

Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and Psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University, and PhD in American Culture from U Michigan, A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. His books include The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, and Against Health .

Current Projects:

**History of medical boundary violations

**Structural Competency

**RWJ men and masculinity project

**Guns and mental illness


Representative Publications

Metzl, JM. “Mainstream Anxieties about Race in Antipsychotic Drug Ads.” American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 2012, 14 (6):494-502.

Metzl, JM.. “Structural Competency.” American Quarterly 2012, 64 (2): 213-18.

Metzl, JM and MacLeish, K. “Triggering the Debate: Faulty Associations Between Violence and Mental Illness Underlie U.S. Gun Control Efforts.” Risk and Regulation [forthcoming].

Metzl, JM. “Structural Health, and the Politics of African American Masculinity.” American Journal of Men’s Health [forthcoming].

Metzl, JM and Hansen, HH. “Structural Competency: theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality.” Social Science & Medicine [forthcoming].

MEDIA

Commentator, MSNBC, Melissa Harris Perry Show. Recent appearances include,

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/51114780#51114780

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/51124323#51124323

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/51114838#51114838

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/51124049#51124049

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/46419672%20-%2046843434#46419672

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/46419672%20-%2046843621#46419672

**http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/46419672%20-%2046843779#46419672

Film Critic, The Lancet. . Recent reviews include,

**A Bitter Pill: Review of Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects (Metzl JM, 2013, 381 (9873): 1174:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60786-2/fulltext

Columnist, NBC.COM. Recent articles include,

*Let's talk about guns, but stop stereotyping the mentally ill (msnbc.com):

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/24/lets-talk-about-guns-but-stop-stereotyping-the-mentally-ill/

*The NRA and race (the grio.com):

http://thegrio.com/2013/03/06/colion-noir-the-nras-urban-gun-enthusiast-is-off-target/#51050433

Metzl, JM. “Sequester This! The Perils of Masculinity and the Truth About Sex.” Public Books, April, 2013: http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/sequester-this-the-perils-of-masculinity-and-the-truth-about-sex

NPR: States of Mind—Mental Illness in America, May 2013: http://backstoryradio.org/shows/states-of-mind/