Several of my essays extend and develop the themes of my book Malignant into areas such as medical apology, fear, temporality, and gender expression.

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“Beyond the Cancer Wars,” in The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health, edited by Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.  ​

 

“Injury Fields,” Injury and Injustice: The Cultural Politics of Harm, edited by Anne Bloom, David Engel, and Michael McCann, Cambridge University Press, 2018: 154-184.

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“Fear of Cancer,” Loyola Law Review, 44, 2010, 233-252.

 

“Survival Odds: Mortality in Corporate Time,” in Current Anthropology, Special Issue Corporate Lives, edited by Hardin. R, D. Partridge and M. Welker, 52(S3) 2011: S45-S54.

 

“Countering Time: The Medical Apology.” The Subject of Responsibility: Framing Personhood n Modern Bureaucracies, edited by Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, Fordham University Press, 2011: 38-57.

 

“The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial.” In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care, edited by Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin, Duke University Press, 2010: 218-237.

 

“Be Prepared.” Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, edited by Jonathan Metzl and Anna Kirkland, NYU Press, 2010: 170-182.

 

“The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead,” Public Culture, 22(1) (Winter 2010): 89-117.

 

“Surviving   Terrorist   Cells,” commentary co-authored  with   Rebecca Herzig, Academic Medicine, 84(1) (Fall 2008): 11-12.

 

“Cancer Butch,” Cultural Anthropology, 22(4), (November, 2007): 501-538.

 

“Urban Violence: Luxury in Made Space.” Mobile Technologies of the City, edited by Mimi Sheller and John Urry, Taylor and Francis, 2005: 61-76.

 

“‘Come up to the Kool Taste’: African American Upward Mobility and the Semiotics of Smoking Menthols.” Beyond the Frame, edited by Angela Davis and Neferti Tadiar, Pergamon Press, 2005: 77-104.

 

“Living in Prognosis: Toward and Elegiac Politics,” Representations 98 (Spring, 2007): 77-92.

 

“Time and Improbable Futures in Clinical Spaces,” Introduction to special issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, co-authored with Sharon Kaufman, 2011: 183-188.

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“Perspectives of Childhood Cancer Survivors as Young Adults: a Qualitative Study of Illness Education Resources and Unmet Information Needs,” Journal of Cancer Education, [Elle Billman, Stephanie M. Smith, S. Lochlann Jain], December, 2022, pp. 1140-1148.

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