by David S. Jones

About David S. Jones

David S. Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. He is the author of Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care.

History

The idea of “history” conveys many meanings. It can be chronology, the “aggregate of past events; the course of human affairs.” It can be scholarship, the “branch of knowledge that deals with past events.” And it can be craft, a “narration” or “representation” (OED Online 2020, “history”).