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Dr. Khameer Kidia on "Empire of Madness," Colonialism, and Reimagining Mental Health Care
This week, Brian sits down with Dr. Khameer Kidia, a writer, anthropologist, and global health physician on the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. A Rhodes Scholar from Zimbabwe, Kidia has spent more than a decade working on mental health research and advocacy in his home country, and his writing has appeared in outlets including The New England Journal of Medicine, Slate, The Yale Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
They discuss Kidia’s acclaimed new book, Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone, which argues that…
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