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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 offer significant benefits to future healthcare professionals. This paper presents the results of a comparative...
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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 grown more vocal over recent years....
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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 in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States...
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ESSAY: Structural Competency and Psychiatry
The essays in this Viewpoints section emerge from a growing body of literature that posits structural competency as a new conceptual framework for reducing inequalities and promoting social justice in...
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PODCAST: When the Shooter Is White: Race politics surrounding U.S. mass shootings | Brooklyn Live
On the show today: An expert on mental illness and gun violence......
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On Censorship and Scientific Integrity in Difficult Times
“CDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.” This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story that alerted the public to behind-the-scenes budget negotiations in which the Trump Administratio...
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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 relationships between medical and social domains. Structural competency (Metzl 2010; Metzl and Hansen 2014; Metzl and ...
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ARTICLE: Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach
Over recent years, the experiences of individuals with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and sex developments have received increasing attention. This attention has led to activism, init...
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ARTICLE: New Medicine for the U.S. Health Care System: Training Physicians for Structural Interventions
The current moment presents an unprecedented opportunity to shift clinical training in the United States from a focus on technological intervention toward provision of more comprehensive health care--...
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VIDEO: Racism and Health in the US South
A dialogue between Camara Jones and Jonathan Metzl, on the impact of racism on health in the south....
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CHAPTER: Living and Dying in Mental Health: Guns, Race, and the Politics of Schizophrenic Violence
This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europ...
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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 (DSM)-II was the first of a series of diagnostic and professional actions that shifted same-sex desire ever fart...
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ARTICLE: Structural Competency in the U.S. Healthcare Crisis: Putting Social and Policy Interventions Into Clinical Practice
It will require training clinicians to see and act on structural barriers to health, to adapt imaginative structural approaches from fields outside of medicine, and to collaborate with disciplines and...
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