Jacob Moses, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities

Physical address:
UHC, Suite 4.208
1005 Harborside Drive
Galveston, TX

Mailing address:
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-1150

Phone: (409) 772-5835
Fax: (409) 772-5272
Email: jdmoses@utmb.edu

    • History of medicine and public health
    • Bioethics/biomedical ethics
    • Health humanities
    • Social medicine
    • Gender and sexuality
    • Postdoctoral Training, Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2022
    • PhD, History of Science, Secondary Graduate Field in Science, Technology & Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2020
    • MA, History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2020
    • BA, Science, Technology & Society, Departmental Honors in Science, Technology & Society, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2007
    • American Association for the History of Medicine
    • American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
    • Society for Social Studies of Science
    • American Historical Association
  • A. Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals:

    • 2022 A. Arnold-Forster, J. Moses, and S. Schotland, “Obstacles to Physicians’ Emotional Health — Lessons from History,” New England Journal of Medicine 386, no. 1 (2022): 4-7.
    • 2018 K. Saha, J. B. Hurlbut, S. Jasanoff, A. Ahmed, A. Appiah, F. Baylis, G. Bennett, G. Church, G. Cohen, G. Daley, K. Finneran, W. Hurlbut, R. Jaenisch, L. Lwoff, J. P. Kimes, P. Mills, J. Moses, B. S. Park, E. Parens, R. Salzman, A. Saxena, T. Simoncelli, O. C. Snead, K. S. Rajan, R. D. Truog, P. Williams, and C. Woopen, “Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design,” Trends in Biotechnology 36, no. 8 (2018): 741-743.
    • 2015 J. Moses, N. Berlinger, M. C. Dunn, M. K. Gusmano, and J. J. Chin, “Bioethics Casebook 2.0: Using Web-Based Design and Tools to Promote Ethical Reflection and Practice in Health Care,” Hastings Center Report 45, no. 6 (2015).
    • 2012 M. S. Race, J. Moses, C. McKay, and K. J. Venkateswaran, “Synthetic Biology in Space: Considering the Broad Societal and Ethical Implications,” International Journal of Astrobiology 11 (2012): 133–139.
    • 2009 E. Parens, J. Johnston, and J. Moses, “Do We Need ‘Synthetic Bioethics’?” Science 321 (2008): 1449 and letter in Science 323 (2009): 339.
    • 2008 N. Berlinger and J. Moses, “Pandemic Flu Planning in the Community: What Can Clinical Ethicists Bring to the Public Health Table?” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 17, no. 4 (2008): 268–70.

    B. Other:

    • Dissertation 2020 J. Moses, Medical Regret without Remorse: A Moral History of Harm, Responsibility, and Emotion in American Surgery since 1945, Harvard University.
      Committee: David S. Jones, Allan M. Brandt, Sheila S. Jasanoff
    • Proceedings and Symposia 2022 “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 1).
    • 2021 “Trans/Medicine,” with K. Slagstad, Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; November 12).
    • 2021 “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 16).
    • 2016 “What Should Democracies Know?,” with G. Vidan, Harvard Program on Science, Technology & Society (Cambridge, MA; December 8).

    Reviews

    • 2009 J. Moses, “A Liberating Value to Biometric Technologies? A Review of Mordini and Massari’s ‘Body, Biometrics, and Identity,’” Dialogue 2, no. 5 (2009): 1–3.
    • 2009 J. Moses, “From Pallets to People: RFID and Technology Design,” Dialogue 2, no. 1 (2009): 3–6.
    • 2008 J. Moses, “A Fair Trade? Canadian Ethics Commission Helps Recast the ‘Privacy vs. Security’ Dilemma,” Dialogue 1, no. 2 (2008): 3–6.

    Commentaries

    • 2011 J. Moses, “The 1.5 Cultures Problem,” Hastings Center Report 41, no. 1 (2011): inside cover.
    • 2009 J. Moses, “Are Parents Driven to Design Their Babies?” Bioethics Forum, February 11, 2009.

    Encyclopedia Entries

    • 2014 J. Moses, “Bioethics Education: IV. Public Education” entry in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th Edition, ed. B. Jennings, L. Eckenwiler, G. Kaebnick, B. Koenig, S. Krimsky, S. R. Latham, M. R. Mercurio. (New York: Macmillan, 2014).

    Reports

    • 2009 E. Parens, J. Johnston, and J. Moses, Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology: An Overview of the Debates (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009): 1–32.
    • 2009 K. Maschke and J. Moses, “Background on Privacy as Contextual Integrity,” working paper for EU-funded Homeland Security, Biometric Identification & Personal Detection Ethics (HIDE) project policy forum, Czech Republic, June 5–6, 2009.
    • 2007 N. Berlinger and J. Moses, The Five People You Meet in a Pandemic and What They Need from You Today (Garrison, NY: The Hastings Center, 2007). (Also included in University of Minnesota project “Pandemic Practices: Pandemic Preparedness Tools.”)

    Publications - in Press:

    • A. Arnold-Forster, J. Moses, and S. Schotland, “Wounded Healers and the Politics of Wellbeing: Healthcare Practitioners’ Emotions in 20th Century Anglo-America,” introduction to special issue of Journal of The History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
    • T. E. Schall and J. Moses, “Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People,” Hastings Center Report.

    Ppapers Presented:

    • 2022 “‘The Moveable Middle’: Misinformation and Moral Reasoning in Public Health Behavioral Modeling,” with K. Huang, Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting (Harvard University; July 29).
    • 2022 “Cis and Trans Gender Affirming Care,” with T. Schall, Berman Institute Research Retreat (Johns Hopkins University; April 27).
    • 2022 “Historicizing Practitioners’ Emotions in the History of Medicine,” co-organizer with A. Arnold-Forster, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, (Saratoga Springs, New York; April 22).
    • 2021 “Selective Affinities: Reflections on Teaching STS in a Medical School,” Speaker on STS Pedagogy Panel, Science and Democracy Network, 2021 Annual Meeting, (virtual; June 25).
    • 2020 “Affect in Retrospect: Genital Surgeries and Tracking Ethical Reform in Late-20th Century Medical Practice,” American Association for the History of Medicine Ann Arbor 2.0 Conference Panel 7 (virtual; December 9).
    • 2020 “Quantifying Patients’ Affect: Decision Regret Scales and the Biomedicalization of Medical Harm,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (virtual; August 18).
    • 2020 “Affect and Sensory Relation in the History of Medicine,” panel accepted at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (conference canceled due to COVID-19).
    • 2020 “Remaking the Regretful Agent: Cancer Surgery, Medical Harm, and the Role of Affect in Therapeutic Reversals,” STS Circle (Cambridge, MA; February 24).
    • 2019 “Regret in Anticipation: Prostate-Specific Antigen Screening and the Coproduction of Future Bodies and Future Harms,” Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (New Orleans, LA; September 7).
    • 2018 “Radical Regrets: Cancer Surgery, Prostate-Specific Antigen Testing, and the Role of Affect in Therapeutic Reversals,” presentation at Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (Los Angeles, CA; May 11).
    • 2015 “Remorse Without Regret: Experimentalism, Consent, Apology, and the Affective Economies of Biomedicine,” presentation at Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry & Medicine, Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Boston, MA; October 15).
    • 2014 “Learning to Make Difficult Ethical Decisions: A Web-Based Case Learning Approach,” presentation at 11th Annual Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference, with J. Chin, and M. Dunn (Singapore; January).
    • 2012 “LGBTQ Bioethics Panel,” Health and Human Rights Week at the University at Albany (Albany, NY; December 7).
    • 2012 “Not All Arguments Are Equal: The FDA’s MSM Blood Deferral Policy, Gay Etiology, and Access to Sex Reassignment Surgery,” presentation for “What is Progress for Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered Health in Bioethics?” panel, American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (Washington, D.C.; October 20).
    • 2012 “Science on Screen: Dissecting Prime-Time Bioethics,” STS Lecture (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; April 22).
    • 2010 “Ethical Issues in Synthetic Biology,” NASA Synthetic Biology Workshop (Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; October 30–31).
    • 2010 “Does Google Have Biopolitics?” The Tarrytown Meeting (Center for Genetics and Society, Tarrytown, NY; July 28).
    • 2009 Panelist and Discussion Leader, National Conference on Ethics in America (United States Military Academy, West Point, NY; October 15–17).
    • 2008 “Synthesizing New Life: Challenges for Bioethics in Synthetic Biology,” American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities (Cleveland, OH; October 24).
    • 2008 “Synthesizing New Science: Public Engagement and the Regulatory Debate in Synthetic Biology,” National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (Union College, Schenectady, NY; April 25).
    • 2008 “Making Ethical Decisions During a Pandemic: Three Duties and Five People You Need to Know,” with N. Berlinger, Public Health Preparedness Summit (Atlanta, GA; February 22, 2008); Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (San Antonio, TX; February 23).

    Workshops Convened:

    • 2022 “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 1).
    • 2021 “Trans/Medicine,” with K. Slagstad, Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; November 12).
    • 2021 “Graduate Fellows Workshop,” Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (Baltimore, MD; April 16).
    • 2016 “What Should Democracies Know?,” with G. Vidan, Harvard Program on Science, Technology & Society (Cambridge, MA; December 8).

    Invited Lectures - Off Campus:

    • 2022 “Access and Authority in Science Research,” with J. Lupkin (Technológico de Monterrey, Campus Ciudad de México, Departamento de Ciencias, virtual; May 13).