Ethics and/in the History of Medicine and the Human Sciences

In this meeting, we will be revisiting the problem of the "great doctor" for historians of medicine, as well as the question of accountability for historians of medicine (and others). The readings are: 
 
Susan M. Reverby and David Rosner, "'Beyond 'the Great Doctors,'" in Health Care in America: Essays in Social History, Reverby and Rosney, eds. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1979), 3-16.  
Susan M. Reverby and David Rosner, "'Beyond 'the Great Doctors' Revisited: A Generation of the "New" Social History of Medicine," in Locating Medical History, Huisman and Warner, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 167-193.