SOCIOLOGIST AND PSYCHIATRIST

USA

Jonathan Metzl (USA), sociologist and psychiatrist, teaches at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) where he is the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, he has written several articles and books on mental health, violence, and public health issues.

> Prozac on the Couch : Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (Duke University Press Books, 2003)

> Against Health : how Health became the New Morality (NYU Press, 2010)

> The Protest Psychosis : How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press, 2010)