Citation:
Silverstein J. How the War on Drugs Punishes Those Who Suffer. PLOS Public Health Perspectives. 2013.
Jason Silverstein
Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Jason_Silverstein [at] hms.harvard.edu
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- I am a lecturer and founding co-director of the Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health Program at Harvard Medical School. You can learn more about our program here: https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/education/master-science-media-medicine-and....
As well, I serve as the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine's inaugural writer-in-residence, selected by Dr. Paul Farmer. I am also Associate Director of the Media and Medicine certificate program and an Associate of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard.
I hold a master's and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard, where I completed an ethnography of pediatric palliative care under the direction of Dr. Arthur Kleinman and Dr. Paul Farmer. I also have a master's in Religion, Ethics, and Politics from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University.
I have written more than one hundred reported pieces and commentaries. My work has investigated how racial residential segregation becomes embodied as illness and disease, structural violence and the war on drugs, and the politics of health care in the United States. My writing has appeared in VICE, GQ, The Atlantic, Esquire, The New Republic, The New York Times, Men’s Health, The Guardian, Slate, and The Nation, and has been featured by MSNBC, NPR, HuffPost Live, BET, and Big Think, among others.