About this Guide
Welcome! This resource guide has been designed for students in Katie Baca's Spring '25 Expos course, Do No Harm? Healthcare's Limits.
The resources and strategies described here are a starting point for the kind of research you'll be doing for your final projects.
They represent our first, best guesses at where you might find background research, primary source materials, and current scholarly conversations. As you proceed, other resources or other problem-solving strategies may have to be added in.
Remember that good research often begins with hunches and hypotheses: about where an academic conversation is happening,and about what words and search strings might surface it. Good researching is also about being observant as you consider where else (or to what else) your initial reading may lead you. And good research is all about patience: you may need to try several combinations of search terms before you strike gold.
Let me know if questions arise at any point in your project. We'll triage by email or set up a time to meet in Lamont.
Enjoy your work!
Sue Gilroy, Librarian for Undergraduate Programs for Writing, Lamont Library, Room 210
Image above left: Henry K. Beecher (1950). Beecher was the HMS faculty member who published a groundbreaking essay on medical ethics in 1966 --but had his own complicated history with human subject experimentation. See this February 2017 Harvard Magazine profile.
