Do Less Harm - Ethical Questions for Health Historians

"This book explores the ethical challenges in researching, writing, and teaching the history of health and medicine. It emphasizes the need for ethical practices that extend beyond formal requirements, incorporating perspectives from recent social justice movements"--

About the author

Courtney E. Thompson is an associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. She is the author of An Organ of Murder: Crime, Violence, and Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century America.Kylie M. Smith is an associate professor and the director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy at Emory University. She is the author of Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing.

Product details

• Authors: Courtney E. Smith Thompson
• Assisted by: Kylie M Smith (Editor), Kylie M. Smith (Editor), Courtney E Thompson (Editor), Courtney E. Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9781421452265
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-5226-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, MEDICAL / Ethics, SCIENCE / History, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Medical History & Records, History of Medicine, History of Science, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Medical and health informatics