Jonathan Metzl

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies Director of Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine Ph.D., 2000, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor M.D., 1991, University of Missouri, Kansas City M.A., 1995, Stanford University

Contact Information:
2203 Lane Hall
204 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1209

Email: jmetzl@umich.edu

Website:
http://www2.med.umich.edu/psychiatry/psy/fac_query4.cfm?link_na...

Biography: Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D. in American Studies. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine. In this capacity he works as a Senior Attending Physician in the adult psychiatric clinics, and teaches courses in the areas of history of psychiatry, gender, and health at the undergraduate and graduate levels.   He is author of Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (Duke University Press, 2003), and of The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press, forthcoming).  His work has appeared in journals including the Lancet, American Journal of Psychiatry, American Harvard Review of Psychiatry, Gender and History, and SIGNS: The Journal of Women, Culture, and Society. His researched has been supported by grants from such funding agencies as the Women's Health office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), among other sources.

Publications:

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

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Beacon Press, forthcoming).

See full text versions of some of Professor Metzl's publications at http://www.psych.med.umich.edu/faculty/Metzl/