This article details the relationship between history and bioethics. I argue that historians' reluctance to engage with bioethics rests on a misreading of the field as solely reducible to applied ethics, and overlooks previous enthusiasm for historical perspectives. I claim that seeing bioethics as its practitioners see it - as an interdisciplinary meeting ground - should encourage historians t...

Historians are increasingly required to produce research that makes an impact. This is particularly the case for medical historians, partly because of our funders’ expectations, but also because there is a sense that medical history can inform today’s thorny debates about health. Unfortunately, many historians struggle to make an impact. I suggest that participating in medical conferences (broa...

Historiography went throughout massive changes in 20th century, especially after the Second World War. Old political history was replaced, or at least challenged, by social and cultural histories, while historiography became increasingly open toward other social sciences and humanities. Historians started to be aware of other scholars� theorizing on many important questions, and the historians ...