Jonathan M. Metzl
Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
Professor of Psychiatry
Vanderbilt University
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SPECIAL ISSUE: What Guns Mean: The Symbolic Lives of Firearms
Civilian-owned firearms are particular material objects whose public health implications g...
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PODCAST: What Can Gun Violence Researchers Do?
If there are realistic goals that could slash gun violence in the US, what can be done by ...
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OPINION-ESSAY: Repeal the Dickey Amendment to Address Polarization Surrounding Firearms in the United States
Forces against the funding blockade put in place by the Dickey Amendment in 1996 have grow...
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ARTICLE: Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms
Jonathan M. Metzl MD, PhD, and Kenneth T. MacLeish PhD: Four assumptions frequently arise ...
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ARTICLE: Using a structural competency framework to teach structural racism in pre-health education
The inclusion of structural competency training in pre-health undergraduate programs may o...
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ESSAY: Structural Competency and Psychiatry
The essays in this Viewpoints section emerge from a growing body of literature that posits...
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ARTICLE: Developing and Evaluating an Innovative Structural Competency Curriculum for Pre-Health Students
Structural competency has emerged as an important new framework for understanding relation...
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ARTICLE: Conflations of Marital Status and Sanity: Implicit Heterosexist Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Physician-Dictated Charts at a Midwestern Medical Center.
Removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D...
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