![]() ![]() The book begins from a simple premise: the history of American psychiatry is a history of ignorance. ![]() My recent book, On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing (University of Chicago Press, 2019), draws on extensive archival research and contemporary interviews to reconstruct the history of American psychiatry from 1844 to today. Primarily, my research focuses on medical professionals, specifically the history of professionalization in the United States, the nature of professional politics, and the influence of abstract knowledge on clinical practice. Medicine offers a fertile site for the exploration of questions related to knowledge and power. The old saw that “knowledge is power” raises important research questions. Knowledge is a basic fault line upon which power disparities are constructed. ![]() My research interests are in medical sociology and the sociology of knowledge. I am an associate professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico (PhD from New York University, 2010). ![]()
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