Jonathan M. Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His latest book is What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
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Jonathan M. Metzl is Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His latest book is What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
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