She directs the Patient Narrative Study, where she explores the rhetorical consturction of illness. Her medical work has appeared in journals that include The Journal of Clinical Ethics (2003) and the Journal of General Internal Medicine (2003). Her earlier rhetorical work focuses on revolution, religion, and political radicalism. It appears in several volumes in the German press Suhrkamp (1998) and the Cyberculture Reader (2002).