Peer-reviewed journal articles

Messac L, AT Janke, L Rogers, I Fonfield, J Walker, E Rushbanks, N Becker, G Bai. 2024. US nonprofit hospitals have widely varying criteria to decide who qualifies for free and discounted charity care. Health Affairs 43 (11). 

Messac, L, I Fonfield, N Maleki and K Delaney. The policy alliance between hospitals and collection agencies: content analysis of public comments on regulations on billing and collections.  Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing 2024; 61. 

Messac, L. 2023. Debt collection in American Medicine — A history. The New England Journal of Medicine 389: 1621-25.

Messac L, A Knopov, and M Horton. 2020. Delayed care-seeking for non-COVID illnesses in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Medical Journal 103(4): 10-11.

Messac, L. 2020. Birthing a nation: wealth-in-people, political legitimacy and health policy in Hastings Kamuzu Banda’s Malawi, 1962-1980. Journal of Southern African Studies 46(2): 209-228.

Carrasco, H, L Messac, and S Holmes. 2019. Misrecognition and critical consciousness–an 18-month-old boy with pneumonia and chronic malnutrition. New England Journal of Medicine, 380: 2385-2389.

Braslow, J and L Messac. 2018. Medicalization and demedicalization–a gravely disabled homeless man with psychiatric illness. New England Journal of Medicine, 379: 1885-1888.

Messac, L. 2018. Outside the economy: women’s work and feminist economics in the construction of national income accounting. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 46(3): 552-578.

Lange, B, T Roberts, J Cohn, J Greenman, J Camp, A Ishikazi, L Messac, E Tuaillon, P van de Perre, C Pichler, C Denkinger, P Easterbrook. 2017. Diagnostic accuracy of detection and quantification of HBV-DNA and HCV-RNA using dried blood spot (DBS) samples—a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases 17(Suppl 1): 71-85.

Messac, L. 2016. No opiates for the masses: untreated pain, international narcotics control and the bureaucratic production of ignorance. Journal of Policy History, 28(2):193-220.

Greenman, J, T Roberts, J Cohn, and L Messac. 2015. Dried blood spot in the genotyping, quantification and storage of HCV RNA: a systematic literature review, Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 22(4):353-361.

Messac, L. 2014. Moral hazards and moral economies: the combustible politics of healthcare user fees in Malawian history. South African Historical Journal, 66(2):371-389.

Messac, L, D Ciccarone, J Draine, and P Bourgois. 2013. The good-enough science-and-politics of anthropological collaboration with evidence-based clinical research: four ethnographic case studies. Social Science and Medicine, 99:176-186.

Peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes

Farmer, P, M Basilico, and L Messac. 2016. After McKeown: the changing roles of biomedicine, public health and economic growth in mortality declines, in Therapeutic Revolutions: Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century, eds. Jeremy Greene, Flurin Condrau, and Elizabeth Watkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Messac, L, and K Prabhu. 2013. Redefining the possible: AIDS as a global priority at the dawn of the 21st Century, in Rethinking Global Health: An Introduction, eds. Matthew Basilico, Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, University of California Press.

Drobac, P, M Basilico, L Messac, D Walton, and P Farmer. 2013. Building a rural health delivery model in Haiti and Rwanda, in Rethinking Global Health: An Introduction, eds. Matthew Basilico, Paul Farmer, Jim Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, University of California Press.