Here are some articles and essays that I've written over the years. Items that underwent a double-blind review are marked with an asterisk. I'm no longer an academic, so I don't write for publication as often as I used to, but I do try to have a project on the go from time to time.  


2020. "Breakfast, Biometrics, and Belonging: Eating in the Social Order." Review essay. Political & Legal Anthropology Review 43 (2): e165-e178.

2014. "Human Rights," "Informed Consent," "Patients' Rights," and "Right to Refuse Treatment." In Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness, edited by Andrew Scull, 359-62, 396-98, 623-27, 756-58. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

2012. Review of The Language of Crime and Deviance, by Andrea Mayr and David Machin. Language in Society 41 (5): 690-691.

2011. "Walking the Walk: On the Epistemological Merits of Literary Ethnography." Anthropology and Humanism 36 (2): 178-192.*

2011. "Knowing is Half the Battle? Reflections on Myth, Metaphor, and the Untranslatability of Pain." Totem: The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology 19 (1): 38-49.*

2011. "Desperation or Dissent?" Review of Wayward Women, by Holly Wardlow. Theme issue, "Situating Theory," Peninsula: A Journal of Relational Politics 1 (1).*

2010. "Variations on a Familiar Theme: Reflections on Advocacy Journalism and the Neoliberalization of Mental Health Activism in 21st-Century Canada." vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (1): 81-101.*

2010. "How It Looks From the Wrong End of the Siphon." Review of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, by James Ferguson. vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (1): 126-130.

2009. "Pharmaceutical Imperialism and the Global Trade in Psychotherapeutics." Counterpunch 16 (15): 1-4.

2009. "Inside the DSM." Counterpunch 16 (12): 1, 3-5, 8.

2009. "Primum Non Nocere." Theme issue, "Body, Health, Illness: Bordering the Medical and the Social," Altérités: Revue d'anthropologie du contemporain 6 (1): 66-76.*

2009. "Nature/Culture Dichotomies in Bioethics Debates." Review of Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology, by Sandra Bamford. Science as Culture 18 (4): 501-504.

2009. "The Spirit and the Letter." Hart House Review 18: 25-27. Third prize, 27th annual Hart House Literary Contest, short fiction category.*