Mar 14, 2018PODCAST: The State of New York Gun Legislation | 112BK[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Jonathan Metzl, Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, talks with Ashley Ford at 112BK about New...
Dec 30, 2017PODCAST: When the Shooter Is White: Race politics surrounding U.S. mass shootings | Brooklyn LiveOn the show today: An expert on mental illness and gun violence to talk about mass shootings. Brooklyn Live – Podcast interview about Washington Post essay, ...
Dec 30, 2017RADIO: Public perception of mass violence and mental illness often misguidedIn response to Sunday’s mass shooting at a Texas church, President Trump said the shooting was not “a guns situation,” but rather, a problem of mental health...
Dec 30, 2017ARTICLE: I’m a Psychiatrist. Making Gun Violence About Mental Health Is a Crazy Idea | POLITICOBefore the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting—before we knew about the extent of the injury and death, or...
Dec 30, 2017RADIO: How Mental Health Arguments Hinder Solutions To Gun Violence | KCUR’s Up To DateJonathan Metzl speaks to KCUR’s “Up To Date” about claims that gun violence in America is primarily a mental health issue, and not one related to the easy av...
Oct 14, 2017VIDEO: A New Paradigm for Race & Racism in Medicine“I don’t think anybody, as a doctor or patient, wants to go to the doctor and say ‘Doctor, I have some specific signs and symptoms’ and the doctor to say ‘we...
Nov 30, 2016VIDEO: Racism and Health in the US South[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] We define structural competency as the trained ability to discern how a host of issues defined clinically as symptoms, at...
