The benefits of microhistory are well-known, as are its perils.
Genethics mining whether a particular peril must be disclosed is its materiality to the patient's decision: all risks potentially affecting the decision must be unmasked.
But even if ecology were being 'undermined', that would be a trivial cost compared with the benefit of awakening humanity to its peril.
The recent discoveries of medical science show that a thousand perils, unsuspected a generation ago, swarm in the atmosphere of a busy street.
However, it certainly made me wonder whether we ignore the importance of secondary gain in our patients to our peril.
It may well be that the perils of present-minded history, in this instance driven by the commendable aspiration to combat fearsome tendencies, compromise conceptual rigor.
Such labelling is unfortunate, as it tends to isolate broader arguments which historians ignore at their peril.
Patterns and perils of guessing in second language reading.
