Jacob Moses is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities and faculty member of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities. Dr. Moses’s research, teaching, and mentorship centers on the intersection of the history of medicine and public health, bioethics, and science & technology studies. His work uses historical and contemporary qualitative research methods to interrogate questions of knowledge, ethics, and governance. His interests include medical decision-making, public health governance, gender and sexuality, the history of emotions, the history of surgery, and the history of biomedical ethics. He investigates many of these themes in his current book project, “Medical Regret without Remorse,” which traces the history of therapeutic reversals in surgical practice from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Dr. Moses has been supported by several fellowships and grants. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator of an National Science Foundation-funded project examining the history of behavioral science in public health practice and policy. His research has been published in a range of leading humanities and health science journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Hastings Center Report, Annals of Internal Medicine, Science, and American Journal of Bioethics. He has also authored translational humanities work in outlets including Health Affairs Forefront, STAT News, and the Washington Post.
Dr. Moses received his PhD in History of Science, with a secondary graduate field in Science, Technology & Society, from Harvard University. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Before pursuing his doctoral training, he worked for several years at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute.
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