- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'RACE, STIGMA AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/29/2006 - 01/29/2006
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St., Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518
- Description: Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies and Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine
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- Detailed Information: Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are violent or dangerous lie at the heart of stigmatizations of the disease. For instance, numerous studies have found that physicians, police officers, and the general public overestimate the risk of aggression in patients with schizophrenia more often than in other patient groups. Metzl’s project tells the story of how these modern-day American conceptualizations of schizophrenic patients as violent emerged during the civil-rights era of the 1950s–1970s in response to a larger set of conversations about race.
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies and Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan.
