Neurodivergence & Diagnosis
The Clinical Gaze and the Autistic Mind
What happens when the tools of diagnosis become instruments of exclusion rather than understanding?
Structural Competency in Psychiatric Training
Published in The Lancet Psychiatry—reimagining how we teach physicians to see systems, not just symptoms.
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
The history of autism is not a medical story. It is a story of how society decides who is valuable.
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
You think I don't understand because I don't speak. But I understand everything.
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
The mask is not a deception. It is survival. And it is killing us.
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
I think in pictures. The medical world thinks in words. This is the gap we must bridge.
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
The diagnostic manual has a gender. It is not neutral. It is male.
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home
I was forty years old before I understood my own mind. How much earlier could I have known?
Health Systems & Structural Reform
The Architecture of Harm
Medical error is not individual failure. It is the predictable outcome of systems designed for speed over safety.
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
The hospital was never a neutral space. It was built with Black pain.
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
The doctor-patient relationship was not lost. It was sold.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
The price of your surgery has nothing to do with the cost. It has to do with what they think you will pay.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The war on cancer revealed our priorities. Some lives were worth more than others.
Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care
Bias is not in the heart of the physician. It is in the structure of the system.
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
We are not independent beings who occasionally need care. We are care-dependent creatures from birth to death.
Race & Medicine
The Algorithm of Whiteness
How medical calculators encode race—and how those numbers determine who gets a kidney, a baby, or pain relief.
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Race is not a biological category that medicine discovered. It is a political category that medicine keeps alive.
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
The state has always been interested in Black women's wombs. That interest has never been benign.
So Long a Letter
Friendship between women is not a luxury. It is the rope we use to climb out of the wells men dig for us.
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
I learned to heal in a place that did not believe I deserved to be healed.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her cells lived forever. She died in the colored ward, buried in an unmarked grave.
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
The speculum was tested on enslaved women without anesthesia. They were told Black women did not feel pain.
Power & Institutions
The Credential as Weapon
How medical training confers the right to speak—and how that right is distributed unevenly across gender, race, and class.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The examination is a ritual of power. The patient does not just receive care. They receive a diagnosis of their place.
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The clinic created a new kind of seeing. The patient became visible only through the physician's trained eye.
The Wretched of the Earth
Colonialism does not just steal land. It colonizes the mind. The clinic is one of its instruments.
Black Skin, White Masks
The Black man is not. He is made. And the clinic is where that making is most efficiently accomplished.
The Revolt of the Black Athlete
The institution will allow your excellence only if you remain silent about its violence.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The patient is not an empty account to be filled with your expertise. They are a co-creator of knowledge.
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