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Dr. Jacob Moses joins BHH

Oct 10, 2022, 08:00 AM by User Not Found

Jacob Moses is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities at UTMB. Before joining the faculty at UTMB, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research and teaching centers on the intersection of the history of medicine and public health, bioethics, and science & technology studies. He links 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 bioethics. Many of these themes are investigated 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. In this project, he develops a concept of “medical regret” to illuminate bureaucratic and affective responses to medical harm, offering a new account of how the circulation of affect among patients, medical professionals, and public health officials has shaped contemporary regimes of health. He earned his Ph.D. in history of science, with a secondary field in science, technology and society, at Harvard University. Before his doctoral training, he worked for several years at The Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute.