Jonathan Metzl
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about recent faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreDec 19, 2019
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Dying of Whiteness: How the politics of racial resentment is killing America’s heartland
On the night of Nov. 21, 2014, Becca Campbell, a 26-year-old woman from Florissant, Missouri, died of whiteness. Read MoreOct 30, 2019
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Meet Vanderbilt authors at the Southern Festival of Books
Vanderbilt faculty, staff and alumni will be part of this weekend’s free Southern Festival of Books downtown at War Memorial Plaza and the Nashville Public Library. Read MoreOct 11, 2019
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Recent Books, Summer 2019
Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917 (2019, W.W. Norton) by Dale Cockrell, professor of musicology, emeritus Everybody’s Doin’ It is the eye-opening story of popular music’s 70-year rise in the brothels, dance halls and dives of New York City. It traces the birth of popular… Read MoreAug 23, 2019
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Jonathan Metzl examines how hot-button political issues impact health
Professor Jonathan Metzl isn’t afraid to tackle society’s most controversial issues, like guns, mass shootings, health care, race, politics and mental illness. Read MoreMar 11, 2019
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The health consequences of backlash politics
Public policies rooted in racial resentment can carry grave consequences for health and well-being, according to new research by Vanderbilt psychiatrist and sociologist Jonathan Metzl. Read MoreMar 4, 2019
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What’s On My Mind: The bright points of 2018
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos reflects on Vanderbilt's work, progress and accomplishments over the past 12 months in his final column of 2018. Read MoreDec 21, 2018
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about Vanderbilt faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreDec 17, 2018
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Panel explores issues surrounding gun violence prevention
About the same time a Vanderbilt University School of Medicine panel discussion on gun violence prevention ended Feb. 14 in Light Hall, a heavily armed young man barged into his former high school in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire on students and teachers, killing 17 and injuring others. Read MoreFeb 22, 2018
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‘Gun Violence Prevention: A Community Conversation’ Feb. 14
A panel discussion on gun violence prevention, along with a moderated public debate, will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 14, at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Read MoreFeb 1, 2018
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Take a Chair: A new $30 million investment to support faculty could lead to innovations that will save your life and shape the world’s future
In this feature, Vanderbilt Magazine highlights just a few of the wide-ranging research endeavors being undertaken by the university’s current chair holders—from the creation of low-cost, potentially lifesaving materials that can warn of structural failures to discoveries explaining the mechanisms of addiction. Read MoreNov 21, 2017
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Unique premed program teaches new approach to race and health
A premed program that teaches undergraduates about institutional racism is up and coming at Vanderbilt Read MoreSep 20, 2017
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What happens when Western psychiatry goes global?
A March conference at Vanderbilt about "The Global Psyche" will feature two keynote speeches open to the public Read MoreMar 6, 2017
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Unique premed program provides tools to understand social contexts for health
Seniors who completed the program were as likely as traditional pre-med students to be accepted into medical school. Read MoreNov 30, 2016
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Antidepressants: A treatment for bad marriages?
Psychiatrists usually treat marriage troubles by prescribing drugs meant for depression, a new study from Vanderbilt University shows. Read MoreJul 7, 2016
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Experts on mass shootings, guns in America, and political perceptions after terrorism
Vanderbilt University's Jonathan Metzl, a mental health and mass shootings expert, and Liz Zechmeister, who studies perceptions of political leaders after terrorism, shed light on the Orlando mass shooting. Read MoreJun 13, 2016
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The Conversation: Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri?
Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, writes: "Again and again, people with whom I spoke raised concerns, not just about the lethal potential of firearms, but about the ways that allowing guns into previously gun-free communal spaces might impact a host of commonplace civic encounters as well." Read MoreMar 10, 2016
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State of the Union address – Vanderbilt experts available
President Obama is set to talk to the nation on Jan. 12 for his final State of the Union address. Vanderbilt has an array of experts available. Read MoreJan 7, 2016
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Metzl assumes post in gun violence prevention organization
Jonathan Metzl of the Center Medicine, Health and Society has signed up with The Safe Tennessee Project as director of research. Read MoreSep 21, 2015
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TIP SHEET: Mental health and society expert can comment on Holmes sentence
Jonathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University can comment on the sentencing of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes. Read MoreAug 3, 2015