Books.
Blease, C. Dr Bot: Why patients need digital doctors and what technology still can't do. Yale University press (2025)
Bernstein, M., Blease, C., Locher, C., & Brown, W. The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick. Mayo Clinic Press (2024)
Essays.
A range of essays published in leading magazines and newspapers from 2011 to the present.
Your doctor's words could make you sick
Pseudoscience exacerbates the burden of disease
Deck the halls with hallmark films
Why are doctors so afraid of letting patients see their records?
Medicine's culture of secrecy
Why pills won't solve postpartum depression
In defense of boozy workplaces
Gender ideology can harm trans people, too
Groupthink is stifling the university
No, Michelangelo's David isn't 'inappropriate' for kids
The snobbish war on the red tops
Prince Harry and the trouble with therapy
Don't fear patients reading their clinical notes: Opinion
Opening mental health notes: 7 tips to prepare clinicians
Treating patients like grown-ups: Open notes
Should mental health patients see their doctors' notes?
How do you save a child from a robot?
Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t
Is this on the exam? The pressing need for philosophy in schools
Mind the gap: Ethical failures in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome
Can a shot of the humanities make doctors more humane?
Empowering Young Minds of the Future