Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians (Global Studies in Medicine, Science, Race, and Colonialism)

Offers reflections, provocative questions, and practical strategies for ethical, responsible approaches to health history. In Do Less Harm, editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together a group of leading historians and scholars to confront one of the most pressing questions in health history: How can we ethically approach stories of medicine and health without perpetuating harm?This thought-provoking collection invites readers into a crucial conversation about the responsibilities of historians when documenting the past.Through carefully curated essays, the contributors explore the ethical dilemmas that arise in researching, teaching, and writing about the history of health care.From patient privacy to the politics of archives, the essays cover how health histories have often overlooked, misunderstood, or misrepresented the people and communities most affected by medical practices.The contributors challenge the assumptions of the field, offering a more thoughtful appr