OTHER WRITING
Magazine articles & newspaper editorials:
In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal, New York Times, May 7 2024
Insensitivity Training, The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2022.
Sisyphus Gets a Prescription, The Hedgehog Review, Fall 2021.
An Ethical Path to a Covid Vaccine, New York Review of Books 2020 (July 2); 67:11.
Why They Blow the Whistle, The Atlantic Monthly, October 2, 2019
Happiness on Demand? New York Review of Books 2019 (February 7); 66(2).
Knifed with a Smile, New York Review of Books 2018 (April 5); 65(6), pp. 64-7.
Tuskegee Truth Teller, The American Scholar Winter 2018, pp. 44-56.
Erect a Statue of this Civil Rights Hero, New York Times, September 16, 2017.
What New Zealand’s “Unfortunate Experiment” Can Teach Us about Medical Abuse, The Boston Review, November 26, 2017.
Steph Curry, the Prophet of Basketball, New York Times, March 17, 2016.
University of Minnesota Blasted for Deadly Clinical Trial, Mother Jones, April 23 2015
The University of Minnesota’s Medical Research Mess, New York Times, May 26, 2015.
The Best-Selling, Billion-Dollar Pills Tested on Homeless People, Matter, July 27, 2014.
Useless Studies, Real Harm, New York Times, July 28, 2011.
Mind Game, The New Yorker, September 6, 2010
The Mild Torture Economy, The London Review of Books 32:18, September 23, 2010.
Making a Killing, Mother Jones, September/October 2010, pp. 55-63.
Guinea Pigging, The New Yorker, January 7, 2008.
Lost and Found: Guinea Pig Zero, Tin House, Spring 2008, pp. 103-105.
Playing Doctor, The Atlantic Monthly, December 2010.
In Defense of the Beta Blocker, The Atlantic Monthly, August 2008.
Guinea Pigging, The New Yorker, January 7, 2008.
The Drug Pushers, The Atlantic Monthly, April 2006.
When Ethicists Have Conflicts of Interest, Dissent 2005 (Fall), 44-46.
This is Your Country on Drugs, New York Times, December 14, 2004
Scrivener’s Palsy, London Review of Books, 26, No. 8 (January 8, 2004), 21-22.
Humanity 2.0, The Wilson Quarterly XXVII (4), Autumn 2003, pp. 13-20
Adventures in the Gene Pool, The Wilson Quarterly, 2003 (Winter); 27(1):12-21.
Dark Passage, The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2001.
A New Way to Be Mad? The Atlantic Monthly, December 2000, pp. 72-84.
How to be an Academic Failure: An Introduction for Beginners, The Ruminator Review, Winter 2000, pp. 15-16.