Dr. Marco Ramos

Biography

Marco Antonio Ramos, MD PhD, is a historian and psychiatrist who serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. His research focuses on the intersection of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and political imagination in the Americas during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is the author of the forthcoming book 'Dreams: Radical Psychiatry, Terror, Human Rights in Cold War Argentina' which examines personal archives of survivors and physician-activists to recover radical visions of anti-capitalist liberatory psychoanalysis in the context of the 'disappearances' during the fascist terror dictatorship of 1970s Argentina. His award-winning writings have appeared in several prestigious clinical, academic, and popular journals, including the American Historical Review, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. His research has received support from several significant funding bodies, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Ramos co-directs the Community Histories Lab (CHL) at Yale School of Medicine, which aims to unearth local histories in New Haven and Yale University to promote justice along the lines of race, class, disability, gender, and sexuality.

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