For the Misnamed: A Narrative Ethics Project

This is an independent scholarly and public-facing project examining how diagnostic categories shape clinical encounters, stigma, legitimacy, and life trajectories.

Grounded in clinical practice and medical humanities, the work explores how diagnosis can clarify suffering while also constraining agency when categories become enduring social and administrative identities.

Through essays and conceptual frameworks, the project advances alternatives rooted in narrative sovereignty, ethical presence, and interpretive humility, forming the foundation for a forthcoming book-length work.