Selected Publications

Books

• Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery (Chicago, 2020). Korean edition (Must-Read Books Publishing, 2020)

• Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz, editors
  The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well (Notre Dame, 2020)

• Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz, editors
  Persons without Qualities: Algorithms, AI, and the Reshaping of Ourselves (special issue of Social Research, Winter 2019)

• Joseph E. Davis and Ana Marta González, editors
  To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine (NYU Press, 2016)

• Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self (Chicago, 2005)

• Joseph E. Davis, editor
  Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements (SUNY, 2002).

• Joseph E. Davis, editor
  Identity and Social Change (Transaction, 2000, paperback 2015)

Articles

• “‘The Explanation You Have Been Looking For’: Neurobiology as Promise and Hermeneutic Closure.” Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry, forthcoming.

• “How to Be Yourself: The Studied Art of the College Application Essay,” The Hedgehog Review 23.3 (Fall 2021), forthcoming.

• “Operation Varsity Blues,” First Things, November 2021, 11-13.

• “All Pathology, All the Time,” The New Atlantis No. 66 (Fall 2021), 55-65.

• “When Your Authenticity is an Act, Something’s Gone Wrong,” Aeon/Psyche, March 31, 2021.

• “Recovering Old Age” (with Paul Scherz), The New Atlantis No. 63 (Winter 2021), 52-62.

• “The Devalued Status of Old Age,” in Joseph E. Davis and Paul Scherz, eds., The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, 23-37.

• “Depthless: The Soul in Liquid Times and the Need for Freud,” Society 57.3 (May/June 2020), 287-293.

• “Let’s Avoid Talk of ‘Chemical Imbalance’: It’s People in Distress, Aeon/Psyche, July 14, 2020.

• “Social Physics Comes to the Workplace,” Hedgehog Review 22.2 (Summer 2020), 58-72.