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Publications include:  Books: Life Writing and Schizophrenia: Encounters at the Edge of Meaning (Rodopi [now Brill] 2013, as part of Clio Medica: Perspectives on Medical Humanities, abook series of Rodopi Press and the University of California Medical Humanities Consortium); The Writing on the Wall: Women’s Autobiography and the Asylum (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1994).   Articles: “Experience Beyond Bearing: Steinbeck in the Psychiatry Archive,” American Literature (June 2016);“’A State of Mind Akin to Madness’: Charles W. Chesnutt’s Short Fiction and the New Psychiatry,” American Literary Realism 44:3 (Spring 2012), 189-208;  “Review of Ed Cohen’s A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and theApotheosis of the Modern Body (Duke University Press, 2009),” Literature and Medicine 29:1 (Spring 2011), 219-224;“Maps of Beauty and Disease: Thoughts on Genetics, Confidentiality, and Biological Family,” British Journal of Medical Ethics 36:8 (August 2010), 479-82;"'I've Found Him!'":  the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia in the DSM-IV Case Book," Narrative (Spring 2004), 195-220.