Abusive Policies: Race, Class and the Making of American Child Abuse

Mical Raz, MD, PhD, is the Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and Health, and an Associate Professor of History and Medicine at the University of Rochester. She is also a practicing hospitalist at the Strong Memorial Hospital. She is the author of What’s Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty (UNC Press, 2013)  and The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (Rochester, 2013), and her new book, tentatively titled Abusive Policies, is under contract with UNC Press.