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17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 20th-century life sciences. Soraya de Chadarevian. This guide focuses on genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. It is not complete: cross-check with the bibliographies on

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 50th Anniversary Celebration. An event marking the 50th anniversary of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science was held on 13–14 July 2023. Watch recordings of the 50th

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A typical day for an MPhil student. What might a typical day look like for an HPS student? This page will hopefully give you some idea of your daily academic life as an MPhil student.

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the course. The MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine is a nine-month course that starts in October each year. The course is conducted by means of supervisions and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the course. Part IB History and Philosophy of Science offers a wide-ranging overview of the nature of science and its place in society. The course explores the historical,

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the course. The Part II course in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) gives students an insight into the historical development of science, medicine and technology. It addresses

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the course. The Part III course gives students the opportunity to carry out focused research in History and Philosophy of Science and enables them to develop a critical and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the Department. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the Department. The largest university department of its kind in the UK, the Department of History and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Academic skills and career development. Researching in museums. Friday 6 October 2023, 1–2pm, Whipple Museum. Joshua Nall. Why is there a museum inside the HPS Department? And how can

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Administration. Administration. Environment. Recycling and energy saving. The Department endorses the British Philosophical Association's Environmental Travel Guidelines. The guidelines

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Adrià Segarra. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Alexander Bird. Thesis topic: A Hybrid Theory of Induction. Research interests: Induction, Evidence

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice from students. Welcome to Cambridge and a warm welcome to the Department on behalf of last year's MPhils! It has been an exciting year and we are reluctant to leave. In parting, we

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice from students. Welcome! HPS is brilliant. If we can say that, having just sat our exams, it must be true! We guarantee you will have a great time this coming year. And before you

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice from students. The following is a brief and very subjective introduction to the Part III course, written from the student's point of view. The people. There's no standard route

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice. Advice. In this section:. Some basic strategies to help demystify the process of writing. Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. Learning strategies and exam

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Affiliates. Emeritus. Dr Robert Anderson: History of chemistry and scientific instruments. Professor German E. Berrios: History of psychopathology and psychiatry. Dr Jeremy Butterfield:

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ahmad Elabbar. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Stephen John and Tim Lewens (advisor). Thesis topic: Justice as an ideal for climate assessment: A study of the

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Amelia Urry. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Co-supervisor: Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Centre, Cambridge). Thesis topic: Sensing oceans, mapping ice: a

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ancient Egyptian science. Annette Imhausen. Ancient Egypt is one of the earliest civilizations to have left written, pictorial, and archaeological records of its culture, including

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ancient Greek and Roman Medical and Scientific Writing. Newnham College, Cambridge. Saturday 15 March 2008. Organised by Liba Taub (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) and Aude

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ancient Greek and Roman Scientific, Medical and Technical Writing. Newnham College, Cambridge. Saturday 21 March 2009. Organised by Liba Taub (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Angela V. Gui. PhD student. College: Corpus Christi. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood. Contact me: vag27@cam.ac.uk. My research focuses on lung disease epidemics in twentieth

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anne Secord. Affiliated Scholar. Research interests: Practices of natural history; history of nineteenth-century popular science, science education, and working-class engagement with

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Annual Report. The Annual Report is a record of the Department's teaching and research activities in the previous academic year. It includes reports about the Whipple Library, the Whipple

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Applying for research grants and post-doctoral fellowships. HPS has internal mechanisms for scrutinising research grant applications that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. All

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Archive. Archive. Details of the Department's seminars and reading groups in previous terms are available here. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Arsham Nejad Kourki. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Tim Lewens. Thesis topic: The origins of organismal complexity: from animals to societies. Department of History and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Astrology and the Body, 1100–1800. Two-day conference organised by Hilary Carey, Lauren Kassell and Rob Ralley, held at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 8–9

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group. The Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group meets once a fortnight, on Tuesdays in the Board Room, to explore aspects of the air, climate, and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS options. Students taking NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences can now choose History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) as their Major Subject. Alternatively, BBS

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS options. Why do people believe what physicians, engineers or scientists say? Is science universally true, or has it developed in different ways in different cultures? How can we

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS Part II timetable. BBS Part II. Options for students taking the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) course in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II students' guide: BBS

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Student. Becoming a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Student. Every year we are approached by scholars from all over the world who want to spend short

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming an Affiliate. Process. Submit an application to your sponsor (a member of staff in HPS). The sponsor forwards the application form (if they accept it) to

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984. 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2019. Men who have sex with men currently experience a disproportionately high prevalence of sexually

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Between the Farm and the Clinic: Agriculture and Reproductive Technology in the Twentieth Century. A one-day workshop, organised by Sarah Wilmot and Nick Hopwood, and funded by the

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bibliographical directions: ancient period. Serafina Cuomo. The first question you may ask yourself is: what do I work on? My suggestion is that you read G.E.R. Lloyd's two slim volumes

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bibliography of Latin language resources. Whether an experienced classicist or someone struggling through the early stages of their latinity, all may find the following texts useful in

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Book launch and garden party. The Department celebrated the launch of Nick Hopwood's book Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud on 19 June 2015. A talk by Dr Hopwood was followed

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Born to Rule: Royal Births in Tudor and Stuart England. Public lectures on 18 & 25 June 2013. This summer, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is due to give birth to an heir to the throne.

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bronowski Prize. The Jacob Bronowski Prize is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History and Philosophy of Science Part II course and, from 2018, for the best

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2005. The annual British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference took place in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science on 5–7

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2001. The 2001 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party took place in the Fellows' Garden at King's College. HPS graduate student Helen Macdonald gave a talk on the

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2003. The 2003 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held in King's College Fellows' Garden on 9 June. The event featured a talk by Sujit Sivasundaram on the

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2005. The 2005 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held on Monday 13 June in King's College Fellows' Garden and featured a talk by Melanie Keene, 'An object

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2011. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2010–11 was held at Christ's College on 10 June. The event included a talk by Vanessa Heggie:

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2013. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2012–13 was held in Gonville and Caius College Fellows' Garden on 14 June. The event included a

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2015. The Cabinet of Natural History held its annual garden party on 12 June 2015. Special thanks to Natalie Lawrence for her splendid talk on 'The Prime Minister and