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Research Overview
Mical Raz, MD, PhD, MSHP, completed her medical training at Tel Aviv University, from where she also received a PhD in history of medicine. Before moving to the US for a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale, she worked at the Tel Aviv Medical Center and volunteered with Physicians for Human Rights. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital in 2015, followed by a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a practicing hospitalist at URMC at Strong Memorial Hospital, and is board certified in internal medicine.
She is the author of The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery (University of Rochester 2013), which was awarded the Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Career Development Award. Her second book, What's Wrong with the Poor? Race, Psychiatry and the War on Poverty (UNC 2013), was a 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Her third book Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost its Way was published in late 2020. Her current interests including child welfare reform and the movement to abolish child protective services.
Selected Op-Eds and Popular Writing
- Raz M, “ Family Separation Doesn’t Just Happen at the Border,” Made By History, Washington Post, January 30, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/30/family-separation-doesnt-just-happen-border/
- Raz, M “What We Get Wrong About the Poverty Gap In Education,” Made by History, Washington Post, July 2, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/07/02/what-we-get-wrong-about-the-poverty-gap-in-education/
- Raz, M “More Mandatory Reporting Won’t Keep Children Safe From Predators” Made by History, Washington Post, May 1 ,2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/05/01/more-mandatory-reporting-wont-keep-children-safe-from-predators/
- Raz, M and Doroshow, D. “Wordsworth Case Shows it's Time to Rethink 'Treatment' for Juveniles, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 3, 2016. http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20161103_Commentary__Wordsworth_case_shows_it_s_time_to_rethink__treatment__for_juveniles.html
- Raz, M. “DHS Must Rethink Care of Children and Families”, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 16, 2016. http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20160916_Commentary__DHS_must_rethink_care_of_children_and_families.html
Graduate Research Fields
I offer the following fields for graduate research: History of Psychiatry, History of Public Health, Child Welfare. For more information on our MA and PhD programs, see our graduate program page.
Michael Afton
I am accepting new graduate student advisees for our MA and PhD programs.
Courses Offered (subject to change)
- HIST 167M: Unequal, Unjust: 100 Years of Racism in American Public Health
- HIST 373W/473: Politics and Policies in the U.S. Health Care System, Syllabus
- PHLT 116: Introduction to the U.S. Health System, Syllabus
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Selected Publications
- Doroshow, D, Gambino M, and Raz, M, 'New Directions in the Historiography of Psychiatry,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2019 Jan 1;74(1):57-84.
- Raz M. and Beatty, B., “Replacing the 'Word Gap' with Non-stigmatizing Approaches to Early Literacy and Language Building,” forthcoming, Pediatrics 2018;142(6), e20181992.
- Raz, M. “Psychiatrists and the Transformation of Juvenile Justice in Philadelphia, 1965-72”, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2018 Volume 73, Issue 4: 437–463.
- Raz, M. “Lessons from History: Parents Anonymous and Child Abuse Prevention Policy,” Pediatrics December, 2017, 140(6).
- Raz, M. “Unintended Consequences of Expanded Mandatory Reporting Laws,” Pediatrics, April 2017, 139 (4), 2016-3511.
- Raz, M. Treating Addiction or Reducing Crime? Methadone Maintenance and Drug Policy under the Nixon Administration, Journal of Policy History, 2017, 29(1): 58–86
- Raz, M. Deprived of Touch: How Maternal and Sensory Deprivation Theory Converged in Shaping Early Debates over Autism, History of the Human Sciences, 2014, 27(2): 75-96.
- Raz, M. The Deprivation Riots: Psychiatry as Politics in the 1960s, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2013, 21(6):345-50.
- Raz, Mical. The Lobotomy Letters: the Making of American Psychosurgery. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. http://www.urpress.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14161
- Raz, Mical. Whats Wrong with the Poor?: Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty. Place of publication not identified: Univ Of North Carolina Pr, 2016.
Everyone thought Mike was a lost cause. Everyone, except his mother.
From the creators of the award-winning film Secret Child, comes MiCal. The inspiring true story of tenacity, a seven-year-old boy struggles to make sense of words on the page. But when Mike is diagnosed with dyslexia and the teachers continue to fail him, his mother takes matters into her own hands to help her son fulfil his true potential.
The Power of a Mother’s Love
“I had to be like that to help him. I wasn’t like that initially. I think any mother, when they have to try to help their children, it makes them strong, and, I have to say I really fought for Michael. I was what they call an anxious mother.”
– Pat Jones, Mike’s mother
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– Kayla Steltenkamp, President International Dyslexia Association KY
“So beautiful, inspirational and moving. Everything I thought it would be and more. Just wanted to say this while the tears are still fresh on my face. Thank you to Tiffany, Mike and Pat. There are no words to describe what they mean to the Dyslexia community.
– Jodi Snowdon, Parent Advocate
The screenplay is written by Malcolm Duffy, who was the creative director of Comic Relief.
The creative team includes Tribeca Film Festival nominated filmmaker/award-winning cinematographer Darius Shu (Secret Child, His Hands), who is also the associate producer on the film. The other key crew members include editor Struan Clay, gaffer Jim Agnew, makeup-artist Allison Edwards, stylist Katie Reid, production designer Elizabeth El-Kadhi Brown, costume designer Poppy Bell, and music by Roy Todd.
Coming in 2020, Mical is presented by Lewis & Ho Productions and Silverprince Pictures.