Coronavirus:
There’s a Sickness Outside, The Yale Review
The Hazy Line Between Elective and Essential Medicine, The Washington Post
Microbiome & metaphor:
Gastroenvironmental Distress, Medical Humanities
The Eaten World, The New Inquiry
Bugs as Features, Real Life
Medicine & design:
Fordism in the Hospital, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
End Stages, Places
The Tower and the Tent, Logic Magazine
ASMR & the diagnostic fetish:
“It Feels Good To Be Measured,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Softer than Softcore, The New Inquiry
Why Are People Losing the Tingles?, Nautilus
Performance and Placebo in the Digital Era, JAMA
Medicine & transgression:
Resurrecting the Cautionary Medical Tale, Slate
Is This Medical Bulimia?, Aeon
The Legacy of The House of God, Slate
Other bellyaching:
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death, The New Inquiry
Match Game, Slate
Health and High Water, New England Journal of Medicine
Clinically oriented research, reviews, editorials, and other peer-reviewed articles are listed more comprehensively here.