Narratives on Race, Medicine, and Psychiatry

Damon Tweedy, MD

INTRODUCTION
Damon Tweedy, MD, is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine. He is an associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine and staff physician at the Durham Veteran Affairs Health System. He has published articles about race and medicine in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Raleigh News & Observer, as well as in various medical journals. He lives outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with his family

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Recall the extent to which nineteenth-century cities offered a fertile environment for medical observations of physical appearances and mental disorders.
• Recognize the historical, urban, and practice contexts in which such observations took place.
• Identify ethical issues arising from these contexts, related, for example, to the way such observations were incorporated into medical understandings which retain clinical currency today; and from the manner in which the observations impacted on patients' privacy and influenced relations between patients and practitioners.

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TRANSCRIPT
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