Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD

Associate Professor Jonathan Sadowsky is the Theodore J. Castele Professor of Medical History at Case Western Reserve. His research concentrates largely on the history of psychiatry in Africa and the United States, and his most recent work, Electroconvulsive Therapy in America: The Anatomy of a Medical Controversy, is forthcoming from Routledge Press. He is a co-founder of the university’s Medical Humanities and Social Medicine initiative, and contributed significantly to the development of the Medicine, Society and Culture (MSC) concentration.

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