A PDF for non-commercial use of my April 11 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, "Money as Medicine – Clinicism, Cash Transfers, and the Political-Economic Determinants of Health," is available here.
Public Writing
"The Solidarity of Shared Trauma: De-Exceptionalizing Gaza" Al Jazeera 11 April 2024
Republished at The TRiiBE as "Gaza and the Solidarity of Shared Trauma"
Republished at Common Dreams as "The Task of Freeing Palestine Is the Task of Freeing Ourselves"
Republished at The Wire (India) as "How Genocide in Gaza Is Reshaping Psychic Life, Political Imaginations Far Beyond Palestine"
Republished at Coolloud (Taiwan) as "共同創傷的團結：加薩的去例外化"
"Moving From Crisis Response to Crisis Prevention in US Mental Health Systems" STAT 8 February 2024
"As Genocide Rages, Doctors Must Choose: Care or Collaborationism" Al Jazeera 25 November 2023
"Chicago Has a Plan to Revolutionize Community Mental Health and End Police Violence" Jacobin 14 November 2023
"How U.S. Hospitals Undercut Public Health" with David Introcaso. Undark 5 October 2023
Republished in TIME Magazine 6 October 2023
"Here’s why Chicago needs a fully funded public mental health system" with Arturo Carrillo. Chicago Tribune 11 August 2023
"The F.D.A.’s Birth Control Decision and Breaking the Medical Monopoly Over Health" The New York Times 22 May 2023
"Getting A Birth Control Pill Should Be Easy" print issue of The New York Times 24 May 2023
"How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration and Rebuild Public Safety" TIME 11 May 2023
"Chicago’s election will shape the future of public safety in America" The Nation and The TRiiBE 31 March 2023
"Fixing U.S. public health will require a health-systems revolution — and for physicians to take a backseat" STAT 24 February 2023
"Want to Fix Public Health? Stop Thinking Like a Doctor." The Nation 22 February 2023
Abridged version in the March 6/13, 2023 print issue of The Nation
"After Another Police Killing in Chicago, We Need to Focus on Care, Not Cops" with Rossana Rodriguez. The Nation 17 February 2023
Republished in The TRiiBE 17 February 2023
"Pregnant People Are Shackled and Abused in Harris County Jail" with Krish Gundu and Elizabeth Rossi. The Appeal 8 February 2023
"Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System." The New York Times 5 February 2023
Interview with "Amanpour and Company" on CNN International and PBS 20 February 2023
"The United States Is Crime Sick. Healthcare Is the Cure" The New Republic 12 December 2022
"Why Are In-Custody Deaths Surging at Houston’s Harris County Jail?" with Krish Gundu. Slate 25 October 2022
"A Cholera Outbreak in a Haitian Prison Threatens to Kill Hundreds Within Days" with Loune Viaud, Pierre Fritznel, and Louise Ivers The Nation 11 October 2022
"Biden's Plan for More Police Won't Make America Safer" TIME 24 August 2022
"How Doctors Can Use Medical Billing to Sabotage Abortion Bans" Slate 17 August 2022
"Synthetic Drugs Are Sending the Overdose Crisis Into Overdrive" with Joe Friedman The Nation 9 August 2022
"Redefining Gun Control in a Nation of Distrust" Slate 7 June 2022
"Prison Reform Is Undermining Public Health and Safety" TIME 31 May 2022
"The Only Way to Fix the Federal Courts’ Fundamental Flaw" Slate 24 May 2022
"The Blind Spot in Medicare for All" The Nation 12 May 2022
"A Judge Retires. Just How Political Is That Decision?" with Daniel Chen. The New York Times 14 April 2022
"The Little-Known Violence Prevention Tool Cropping Up in Cities Across the Country" with Lea Hofer and Tanya Zakrison. Slate 2 March 2022
"The Sheriff and His Jail" Inquest 28 January 2022
"How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom" Slate 25 January 2022
"The Public Health Case for Decarcerating America’s Prison System" Undark 6 January 2022
Republished in Salon 8 January 2022
"Failure to Prioritize Vaccinating Incarcerated People Will Harm Everyone, Again" Jacobin 23 December 2021
"As Covid Surges Again, Decarceration Is More Necessary Than Ever" with Amanda Klonsky. The Nation, 22 December 2021
"Why U.S. Pandemic Management Has Failed: America's Epidemic Engines" STAT 5 October 2021
"To help stop the spread of COVID-19, stop packing a major hot spot: prisons and jails" USA TODAY 23 September 2021
"To Slow Covid Spread, Illinois Must Decarcerate" with Erika Tyagi and Amanda Klonsky. Chicago Tribune 20 September 2021
"Covid-19 et prisons : attention au boomerang carcéral" La Tribune 15 September 2021
"Get Police Vaccinated" with Amanda Klonsky. The Atlantic 26 August 2021
“Punishment in a Pandemic: Eric Reinhart in conversation with Salmaan Keshavjee” IWM Post June 2021
"Mass Incarceration Has Worsened the Covid-19 Pandemic For Everyone" Jacobin 2 June 2021
"Medicine for the People" Boston Review 30 March 2021
Republished as "Decolonising Care and Its Ethics" New Frame (South Africa) 14 April 2021
“Stop Needless Arrests to Prevent COVID-19 Deaths” The New York Times 2 July (online) and 6 July (print) 2020
“When You Arrest as Many People as We Do, You Cannot Protect Against Infectious Spread: An Interview with Eric Reinhart” Jacobin June 27 2020
“Releasing Nonviolent Accused Makes Us Safer in Covid Era” with Daniel Chen. The Wall Street Journal, 24 June 2020
Anthropology of Incarceration, Public Health, and Health Policy
"Money as Medicine – Clinicism, Cash Transfers, and the Political-Economic Determinants of Health" The New England Journal of Medicine 2024; 390:1333–1338 (PDF for non-commercial use available here)
"Popular media misinformation on neonatal abstinence syndrome, 2015–2021" with Katie McCreedy, Aanchalika Chauhan, Gabriel Holder, Sunyou Kang, Leo Beletsky. International Journal of Drug Policy 2024 Mar 1;125:104341.
"The Political Education of US Physicians" JAMA Network Open 2023; 6(6):e2320447
"Abolitional Public Health" The Lancet 2023; 401(10386):1418–9
"Reconstructive Justice – Public Health Policy to End Mass Incarceration" The New England Journal of Medicine 2023; 388:559–564
"Apartheid Logic in Global Health" with Fallah MP. The Lancet 2022; 399 (10328): 902–3
“Association of Anti-Contagion Policies and Jail Decarceration with Covid-19 Growth Rates in US Counties” with Chen D. JAMA Network Open. 2021;4(9):e2123405.
Media and interviews: The Atlantic, NPR, The Guardian, Forbes, USA TODAY, STAT, La Tribune, Chicago Tribune
"How Mass Incarceration Makes Us All Sick" Health Affairs Forefront 28 May 2021
Media and interviews: The Atlantic, USA TODAY, STAT, Harvard Gazette, Quartz, The Appeal, WBEZ, The Healthcare Policy Podcast, Chicago Tribune
"Carceral-Community Epidemiology, Structural Racism, and Covid-19 Disparities" with Chen D. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021; 118 (21): e2026577118
Media and interviews: Chicago Tribune, Harvard Gazette, The Appeal, Quartz, Jacobin, WBEZ, The Healthcare Podcast
"Structural Medicine: Towards an Economy of Care" with Dawes D and Maybank A. The Lancet 2021; 397 (10286): 1691–3
"Vaccination Plus Decarceration –– Stopping Covid-19 in Jails and Prisons" with Barsky BA, Farmer P, and Keshavjee S. The New England Journal of Medicine 2021; 384: 1583–1585
“The Neocoloniality of Who Cares: US Underinvestment in Medical Education Exacerbates Global Inequities" with Alam E. British Medical Journal 2020; 371: m4293
“A Critique of Clinical Economy: Reassessing Value and Care During Covid-19” with Brauner D. British Medical Journal 2020; 370: m2878
“Incarceration and Its Disseminations: Pandemic Lessons from Chicago’s Cook County Jail” with Chen D. Health Affairs 2020; 39 (8): 1412–1418
Selected media and interviews: New York Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, Lancet, Science, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Vox, The Independent, CNN, US News & World Report, Politico, Slate, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mother Jones, Jacobin, Harvard Gazette, Axios, Stateline/Pew Charitable Trusts, American Bar Association Journal, Rolling Stone, Sentencing Law & Policy, Deadline, Common Dreams, The Appeal, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
“Mandatory Disclosure: Theory and Evidence from Industry-Physician Relationships” with Chen D, Levonyan V, and Taksler G. The Journal of Legal Studies 2019; 48 (2): 409–440
Aesthetic and Political Anthropology
“Unbecoming Subjects: Psychiatry, Race, and Disordering the Human” in Ordering the Human: The Global Spread of Racial Science. Edited by Eram Alam, Dorothy Roberts, and Natalie Shibley. Columbia University Press, April 2024 (PDF of chapter for non-commercial use available here )
"Aesthetics for Hypochondriacs: Kantian Time, Sex Phobia, and Self-Soothing Philosophy" Problemi International vol. 5 2022; Problemi vol. 60, no. 10–11: 81–107
"Pandemicity without Pandemic: Political Responsibility in the Exponential Present" b20: an online journal of the boundary 2 editorial collective, January 2021
“Where There Are No Others: Privatized Urban Planning and Cities within Cities” The Johannesburg Salon, edited by Mbembe A and Bosch S. 2014; 7: 131–141
"Aesthetic Politics: Suspension of Reason and the Collective Force of Feeling" Under revision
"Medicine and Ideology" Under Revision
"Revolutionary Medicine? A Genealogy of Power in Medical Anthropology and Global Health" Under revision
Critical Legal Studies and Political Economy
“The Disavowal of Decisionism in American Law: Political Motivation in the Judiciary” with Chen D. Forthcoming at Review of Law and Economics
“Markets and Morality: How Markets Shape Our (Dis)Regard for Others” with Chen D. Forthcoming at The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
"The Judicial Superego: Evidence of Implicit Egoism, Internalized Racism, and Magical Thinking in 9 Million Sentencing Decisions" with Chen D. and Haijdini S. Under revision
"The Legal Reproduction of Racism: Racial Hierarchy and Determinants of Sentencing Disparities" with Daniel Chen. Working paper
"How Prosecutors Exacerbate Racial Disparities" with Daniel Chen and Viknesh Nagarathinam. Working paper
"Laissez-Faire Racism: The Exacerbation of Sentencing Disparities by Economics Trained Judges" with Daniel Chen. Working paper
"The Relativity of Racial Perception: Color Contrast Effects in Refugee Courts" with Daniel Chen and Viknesh Nagarathinam. Working paper