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Friday Morning Seminar
Professors Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron Good, Amy Moran-Thomas, Michael Fischer invite you to the next session of the Friday Morning Seminar. We will have the great pleasure to host Dr. Jonathan Metzl (Vanderbilt University), for a talk entitled: "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland".
Dr. 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 University of Michigan, A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. His books include Dying of Whiteness, The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, and Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality.