A dozen thick, dusty binders indexing medical student projects in the 1960s, 70s and '80s appeared outside my office while I read Manfred Tejerina's review of The Protest Psychosis. In the book, author Dr. Jonathan Metzl uses historical psychiatric treatment records to show just how dangerous medical opinion and influence can be, reaching beyond the immediate patient to wall off entire populations, sometimes literally. The historical records in our binders, thankfully, suggested the beginning of another future for medicine. Multiyear projects focused on a number of inequities, from rural health to gender representation in medical school.
展开▼
