Today's Event!
"What is Mental Illness?" A panel conversation with Justin Garson, Nev Jones, Marco Ramos, and Kendall Atterbury
Time = 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm UK
N.B. This event will last for 75 mins rather than the usual 60 mins.
“What is Mental Illness?”: Talk about mental illness is as much a social and political matter as it is a medical one. There are few concepts that so dramatically enact the imbrication of power and knowledge that Michel Foucault famously described. But what are we doing when we speak about mental illness? Which voices are permitted to speak and which are discounted? What motivations, assumptions, and values underwrite various claims about the appearance, shape, function, and cause of mental illnesses?
In conversation with Yale School of Medicine’s Kendall Atterbury, Justin Garson (philosopher), Nev Jones (community mental health researcher), and Marco Ramos (psychiatrist/historian) will aim to offer a sense of the scope of what is at stake in our understanding of mental illness, considering the place of biology, society, histories of oppression, evolution, and lived experience in such an understanding.
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