Her scholarly work combines historical and anthropological approaches to critical questions of embodiment and health. Most of her research is in Botswana. She is the author of Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana and co-editor of A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and the Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship. Her articles have appeared in various journals including Africa, Medical Anthropology, Radical History Review, The African Journal of AIDS Research, and Cultural Anthropology. Currently she is writing an ethnography of Botswana’s lone cancer ward tentatively titled, Improvised Medicine: Inside an African Oncology Ward.