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.