Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

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Department of History and Philosophy of Science
TypeDepartment
Parent institution
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
England
Websitehps.cam.ac.uk/

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), of the

Whipple Museum and Whipple Library which provide important resources for its teaching and research.[4]

Academic staff

The Department of HPS at Cambridge employs fifteen full-time teaching staff, approximately thirty research staff, numerous supervisors and research associates from departments and colleges across the

Jim Secord became head of the department in 2013 and was succeeded in 2016 by Professor Liba Taub. The current head is Professor Tim Lewens. Other departmental teaching staff include Professor Hasok Chang, Professor Lauren Kassell, Professor Nick Hopwood[5] and Professor Simon Schaffer
.

Degree courses

The department offers a nine-month MPhil course in history, philosophy and sociology of science, medicine and technology. It also supervises graduate students for the Cambridge PhD in HPS and provides advisors in the related fields of research in history, philosophy and social science. Together with the Departments of Sociology and Social Anthropology, it also sponsors a nine-month MPhil in health, medicine and society.[6]

Undergraduate teaching and supervision is provided for students who have completed their first year at Cambridge. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the Cambridge Tripos system, undergraduates from a wide range of fields may study HPS, although entry is predominantly through the

Whipple Museum
provide for first-hand study of scientific instruments which often provide topics for student dissertations.

History and philosophy of medicine

The department is an active centre for the history of medicine and for philosophy of biomedical science and medical ethics. It played a major role in the Wellcome Trust funded Generation to Reproduction project at Cambridge, led by Professor Nick Hopwood, and hosted seminars and day conferences in this field.[7][8] Another major Wellcome-funded project has made available a remarkable corpus of English medical casebooks from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Thompson, David (12 July 2016). "About the Department". Department of History and Philosophy of Science. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  2. ^ Ian Hutchinson, Monopolizing Knowledge (Belmont MA, 2011), p. 73.
  3. ^ "Results & submissions : REF 2014 : View submission".
  4. ^ 'About the Department' Archived 3 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine HPS Cambridge. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  5. ^ "Nick Hopwood | People | HPS".
  6. ^ "New MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society, University of Cambridge | H-Sci-Med-Tech | H-Net".
  7. ^ "Wellcome History 42".
  8. ^ N. Hopwood, R. Flemming and L. Kassell (eds), Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2018.
  9. ^ "Casebooks". casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk.
  10. ^ Katz, Leslie. "'Rapier in his privy parts': Notorious astrologer doctors' 17th-century case notes a wild read". CNET.

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