Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in the Viral Age

Elliott B. Martin, Jr., is Director of Medical Psychiatry at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, part of the Mass General Brigham integrated healthcare system in Boston, USA. He is also an award-winning Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Prior to his return to medical school, he was a linguist and philologist. He is the author of Reconceptualizing Mental Illness in The Digital Age: Ghosts in the Machine (Cambridge Scholars 2021) and The Virtuous Physician: A Brief Medical History of Moral Inquiry from Hippocrates to COVID-19 (Ethics International 2023). He has published over 50 articles in academic and popular journals. In addition to research papers, he has written on philosophical and moral issues in medicine, and on the history of medicine and psychiatry. He has published translations of ancient medical texts, and critical commentaries on current issues in psychiatry and medicine. He has been a regular contributor to the Psychiatric Times and Op-Med.