Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series: Dying of Whiteness
Jonathan Metzel, Frederick B. Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, will present "Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland" as part of the Humanities in Medicine lecture series on Tuesday, March 26 from 12 until 1 p.m. in Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2002.
Lunch will be provided at noon and the talk begins at 12:10 p.m. For more information, please contact trent-center@duke.edu
Physician and sociologist Jonathan M. Metzl traveled across America's heartland examining the politics of racial resentment and its impact on public health. He uncovered how racial anxieties led to the repeal of gun control laws in Missouri, stymied the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and fueled massive cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. Contrary to politicians' promises, these policies made life sicker, harder and shorter in the very populations they purported to aid.
A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric, and popular publications. His newly published fourth book (March, 2019) is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland.