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    Five professors join Vanderbilt’s bid to bridge health and society
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    Chancellor's Lecture Series: October 30, Reception 4:30-5:30, Lecture 5:30-6:30, Dorothy Roberts
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    Triggering the Debate: Race, Gun Control, and Mental Illness. Friday Mar 08, 2013 | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York
The Center for Medicine, Health and Society (MHS) is an innovative multidisciplinary center that studies the social and societal dimensions of health and illness. Our scholarship, teaching, and wide-ranging collaborative projects explore medicine and science in a wide array of cultural contexts, while at the same time fostering productive dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.

On Video

  • MHS Director Jonathan Metzl discusses the science of politics on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show, March 24, 2012

  • "Race and Science" Special MHS student event with Professor Dorothy Roberts

  • Jonathan Metzl appears on a panel discussing the Trayvon Martin tragedy on MSNBC, March 24, 2012

  • The Politics of Health panel, October 14, 2011

  • Director Jonathan Metzl appears with Ira Glass on the Melissa-Harris Perry Show. Listen to Glass’ amazing 2-part TAL piece on guns at Harper High.

  • Director Jonathan Metzl and Bridgeport Connecticut Mayor Bill Finch join the Melissa-Harris Perry panel to discuss guns, race, and mental health.

  • Jonathan Metzl: "The future of the Vanderbilt Center for Medicine, Health and Society"

Focus on Research

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In the News

Dr. Jonathan Metzl writes about guns and mental illness on MSNBC.com
MHS Professor Derek Griffith selected as 2013-2014 RWJF Health Policy Associate
Dr. Jonathan Metzl appears on the Keep Hope Alive radio discussion with Rev. Jesse Jackson

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Events

May 9,  4pm
MHS Class of 2013 Graduation Reception
April 1,  3pm
Dr. Metzl to lecture in Middle TN State University’s Spring Honors Lecture Series
Professor Ken MacLeish’s book signing and celebration, Making War at Fort Hood (Princeton, 2013)

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The Politics of Health Conference

October 3-4, Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health & Society hosts “The Politics of Health,” a two-day conference that explores political exigencies of health in the US and around the world. The conference invites participants and attendees with a range of experiences, priorities, and backgrounds, to a conversation about the paradoxes and the promises of health. The conference is free and open to one-and-all.

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