This list is organized by subject; click here to reorder by year.
Illness & ecology:
Gastroenvironmental Distress, Medical Humanities
The Eaten World, The New Inquiry
— Anthologized in What Future (Unnamed Press, 2018)
Bugs as Features, Real Life
Health and High Water, New England Journal of Medicine
How Ecological Thinking Fills the Gaps in Biomedicine, Aeon
Coronavirus:
There’s a Sickness Outside, The Yale Review
— Anthologized in A World Out of Reach (Yale University Press, 2020)
The Hazy Line Between Elective and Essential Medicine, The Washington Post
The Tower and the Tent, Logic
ASMR & the clinic:
It Feels Good To Be Measured, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Softer than Softcore, The New Inquiry
Performance and Placebo in the Digital Era, JAMA
The palliative zeitgeist:
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death, The New Inquiry
End Stages, Places
Medicine & transgression:
Is This Medical Bulimia?, Aeon
Match Game, Slate
In Our Collective Unconscious, The Body Is a Bad Dream, Wired
Books & movies:
The Legacy of The House of God, Slate
Resurrecting the Cautionary Medical Tale, Slate
A Doctor’s Dissent, Los Angeles Review of Books
Why Doctors Read Chronic Illness Memoirs, Electric Literature
Sciences of Dune: Medicine, Los Angeles Review of Books
Imagination and Repetition in Chronic Illness Memoir, Ploughshares Blog
Other genres:
Time, Guernica
Step-Down, Bellevue Literary Review
— Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, judged by Amy Hempel (2022)
Research, reviews, and other peer-reviewed articles are listed more comprehensively here.