Protest Psychosis What the Race-Based Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in the 1960s Reveals About Today’s CRT Wars | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Date & Time Mar 07 2023 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Location Robertson Hall

002

Topics Health Race, Gender, Identity

Department Center for Health and Wellbeing Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

Speaker(s)

Jonathan Metzl

Audience Open to the Public

Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

Author of Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, and Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.

Sponsored by: Dept of History, Program in the History of Science, School of Public and International Affairs, and the Center for Health and Wellbeing