Joseph E. Davis is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. His research centers on questions of self and morality, psychiatric classification and medicalization, and narrative and bioethics. His most recent book, coedited with Visiting Fellow Paul Scherz, is The Evening of Life: The Challenges of Aging and Dying Well. He is the author of Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery, published in March 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. He is also the author of Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self, which was the cowinner of the 2006 Cooley Award given by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the editor of Identity and Social Change and Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements, and coeditor of To Fix or To Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits of Biomedicine. His articles on issues of identity, victimization, technology, memory, narrative have appeared in books and journals such as Qualitative Sociology, Social Problems, Society, and The Hedgehog Review. He writes a Psychology Today blog called “Our New Discontents: Reflections on Mental Health and Social Ideals.” Davis is currently working on research projects dealing with suffering and narrative, medicalization and psychopharmacology, and enhancement technologies and the self.