Description A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again.
He hails from Kansas City, Missouri, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee..
He is the author of several books and a prominent expert on gun violence and mental illness.
Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.
Metzl is the Frederick B.
About the Author Jonathan M.
White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the Racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.
And he shows these policies\' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates.
Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how Racial Resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas.
Metzl\'s quest to understand the health implications of "backlash governance" leads him across America\'s heartland.
Physician Jonathan M.
But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.
Description A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again
