Protest Psychosis What the Race-Based Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia in the 1960s Reveals About Today’s CRT Wars


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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