Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's HeartlandDying of Whiteness is What's the Matter with Kansas but with an emphasis on public health. In the backlash conservatism of the Trump era, physician Jonathan M. Metzl argues that lower and middle class white Americans who vote for policies that promise to protect their embattled "way of life," in fact damage their own health and well being. Through focus groups and interviews with ordinary Americans and statistical analysis of population health and