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Jonathan Metzl, M.D. is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He received his MD from the University of Missouri, MA in humanities/poetics and Psychiatric internship/residency from Stanford University and PhD in American Culture from University of Michigan. A 2008 Guggenheim fellow, Professor Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatric and popular publications. His books include “Dying of Whiteness,” “The Protest Psychosis,” “Prozac on the Couch” and “Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality.”