NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with sports physician Jordan Metzl about President Trump's effort to revive the Presidential Fitness Test. The presidential fitness test is coming back. You remember that, ...
Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University. Dr.
dr metzl hss, Metzl is the award-winning author of seven books including Dying of Whiteness and What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. He hails from Kansas City, Missouri, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Jonathan M. Metzl - Author & Professor of Sociology and Medicine ... Metzl JM, Pettis P, McKay T, Piemonte J.
dr metzl hss, Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence. In Halliwell and Jones, eds, The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health. Metzl uncovers the contemporary paradox of whiteness: a struggle to preserve white privilege in the midst of the declining value of whiteness. This is a must-read if you want to understand how race and the color line operate in twenty-first-century America.” Dr. Metzl's commentary spans outlets and shows, including MSNBC, FOX, Christian ministry television, Morning Joe, C-SPAN, CNN, AM Joy, PBS's Amanpour & Co, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Metzl compellingly rejects the public health approach he once promoted, which frames gun violence as a biomedical problem and fails to grapple with the racism that shapes both its causes and proposed solutions.
Jonathan Metzl is a physician and sociologist who speaks, teaches, and writes on a range of topics including mental illness and gun violence, race and whiteness in America, health and healthcare, and diversity and structural competency in higher education.
