Associate Professor
bl466@nyu.edu
(212) 998-7313
609 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Monday 3:00-5:00 (BY APPT)
Friday 2:00-4:00 (BY APPT)
B.A., Biology, University of Tennessee, 1978
M.D., Health Sciences, University of Tennessee, 1982
Internship, General, George Washington University, 1982-1983
Residency, Psychiatry, George Washington University, 1983-1986
Ph.D., Human Sciences, George Washington University, 2002
Bradley Lewis has interdisciplinary training in humanities, psychiatry, and continental philosophy. He writes and teaches at the interface of medicine, humanities, cultural studies, and disability studies, and he is associate editor for the Journal of Medical Humanities. He has affiliated appointments with NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Medical Humanities Division of NYU's Department of Medicine. His most recent books are Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Encounters (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and Depression: Integrating Science, Humanities, and Culture (Routledge, 2011). His current book project is devoted to happiness, spirituality, and cares of the self in postmodern times.
2011
Bradley Lewis's Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice was published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
2011
Bradley Lewis's Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities was published by Routledge.
2006
Bradley Lewis' Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry was published by University of Michigan Press.
cultural studies of bioscience medicine and psychiatry; disability studies science studies; cultural and representational theory; medical humanities; psychoanalysis
2023 Spring
Health, Humanities, and Culture
2023 Fall
Foucault: Biopolitics and the Care of the Self
2022 Spring
Foucault: Biopolitics and the Care of the Self
Slow and Transcendental Cinemas: Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Politics
2022 Fall