Jacob Moses

Jacob D. Moses, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), where he holds the Hobby Family Professorship in Medical Humanities. He earned his PhD in History of Science, with a secondary graduate field in Science, Technology & Society (STS), from Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at UTMB, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and, prior to pursuing his doctoral training, he worked for several years at The Hastings Center for Bioethics. Dr. Moses’s research and teaching centers on the intersection of the history of medicine and public health, bioethics, and STS. He employs qualitative research methods to link historical and contemporary questions of knowledge, ethics, and governance. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in the Hastings Center Report, New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.