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  • Dying of Whiteness

    How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

    by Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white voters they promise to help**"A provocative, instructive contribution to the literature of public health as well as of contemporary politics." —**Kirkus ReviewsNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by Esquire and the Boston GlobeI... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Protest Psychosis

    How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

    by Jonathan Metzl ...
    A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illnessThe civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Prozac on the Couch

    Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs

    by Jonathan Michel Metzl ...
    Pills replaced the couch; neuroscience took the place of talk therapy; and as psychoanalysis faded from the scene, so did the castrating mothers and hysteric spinsters of Freudian theory. Or so the story goes. In Prozac on the Couch, psychiatrist Jonathan Michel Metzl boldly challenges recent psychiatric history, showing that there’s a lot of Dr. Freud encapsulated in late-twentieth-century ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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    Dying of Whiteness

    How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

    by Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    Narrated by Jamie Renell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white voters they promise to help**"A provocative, instructive contribution to the literature of public health as well as of contemporary politics." —**Kirkus ReviewsNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by Esquire and the Boston GlobeI... ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • What We've Become

    Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

    by Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    **Finalist for the Tennessee Book AwardsA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year“We need this book now!” —Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times best-selling author of Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White AmericaA searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America.**When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On the Poetics and Politics of Health

    by Rita Charon, Jonathan Metzl ...
    Combining first-person narration, scholarly reflections, and advocacy, this volume features conversations with physician-scholars Rita Charon and Jonathan M. Metzl and provides a holistic view of the human interactions and structural forces that define healthcare today. The contributors afford us opportunities to reconsider health through a poetic and political lense and help us envision a more ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Health

    How Health Became the New Morality

    Edited by Jonathan M. Metzl, Anna Kirkland ...
    Series Book 18 - Biopolitics
    Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourseYou see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encounter someone whose body size you deem excessive, and say, “Obesity is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are lazy, ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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    What We've Become

    Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

    by Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    Narrated by Bob Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 26 min

    Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. As he came to ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Cultural Sutures

    Medicine and Media

    by Jonathan Michel Metzl, Arthur L. Caplan, Joseph Turow, Otto F. Wahl ...
    Medicine and the media exist in a unique symbiosis. Increasingly, health-care consumers turn to media sources—from news reports to Web sites to tv shows—for information about diseases, treatments, pharmacology, and important health issues. And just as the media scour the medical terrain for news stories and plot lines, those in the health-care industry use the media to publicize legitimate stories ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Keywords for Health Humanities

    Edited by Sari Altschuler, Jonathan M. Metzl, Priscilla Wald ...
    Series Book 10 - Keywords
    Introduces key concepts and debates in health humanities and the health professions.Keywords for Health Humanities provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for the burgeoning field of health humanities and, more broadly, for the study of medicine and health. Sixty-five entries by leading international scholars examine current practices, ideas, histories, and debates around health and illness, ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine

    A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health

    Edited by Helena Hansen, Jonathan M. Metzl ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the “structural competency” framework to reduce inequalities in health. The essays describe on-the-ground ways that clinicians, educators, and activists craft structural interventions to enhance health outcomes, student learning, and community organizing around issues of social justice in health and healthcare. Each ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Health Humanities Reader

    by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Lisa Keränen, Michael Sappol, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani DasGupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Paul Root Wolpe, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Bernice Hausman, Allison B. Kavey, Rebecca J. Hester ...
    Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice.In ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD