Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Participants at a history of medicine workshop

People

The people listed here work centrally in history of medicine and allied sciences. Many other colleagues have relevant interests; see the full list of teaching and research staff and affiliates.

Teaching Officers

Emeritus Professor

Research Fellows and Teaching Associates

  • Dr Salim Al-Gailani: History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800
  • Dr Andrew Cunningham: History of medicine
  • Dr Rohan Deb Roy: The 'nonhuman' in science studies; new imperial history; South Asia
  • Dr Karin Ekholm: Early modern European medicine, anatomy and natural philosophy
  • Dr Isla Fay: Medieval and early modern medicine and cosmology
  • Dr Vanessa Heggie: History of modern medicine and biology
  • Dr Natalie Kaoukji: Early modern natural philosophy and medicine
  • Dr Elaine Leong: Early modern medicine
  • Dr Hannah Newton: Medical, social and cultural history of early modern England
  • Dr Hilary Powell: Anglo-Saxon and medieval medicine
  • Dr Ruth Prince: History and ethnography of medicine in Africa
  • Dr Rob Ralley: Social history of natural philosophy, medicine and magic
  • Dr Jennifer Rampling: Late medieval and early modern alchemy, medicine and natural philosophy
  • Dr John Young: History of medicine and alchemy; early modern communication networks

Events and Outreach Officer

Dr Francis Neary

Affiliated Lecturers and College Teaching Officers

  • Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College): History of science; cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book
  • Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College): Early 20th-century human sciences

College Fellows

  • Dr David Feller (Darwin College): History of natural history and evolution
  • Mr Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
  • Dr Leon Rocha (Emmanuel College): History of medicine in modern China

Other people at the University of Cambridge

Affiliated Research Scholars

  • Dr Debby Banham: Anglo-Saxon medicine
  • Professor German E. Berrios: History of psychopathology and psychiatry
  • Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya: History of medicine in South Asia
  • Professor Peter Bowler: History of scientific ideas about biology, race and evolution
  • Dr Elma Brenner: History of leprosy, hospitals and charity in medieval Western Europe
  • Professor Janet Browne: History of the life sciences and natural history
  • Dr Robert Bud: History of technology, museology, chemistry and biosciences
  • Dr Tatjana Buklijas: History of anatomy and embryology
  • Professor Christopher Cullen: History of medicine in China
  • Ms Shinjini Das: History of medicine in 19th-century India
  • Professor Soraya de Chadarevian: History of biology and biomedicine
  • Dr Silvia De Renzi: Early-modern medicine
  • Dr Ole Grell: History of medicine and religion
  • Dr Philippa Hardman: Science and gender
  • Professor Anne Harrington: History of psychiatry, neuroscience and the behavioral sciences
  • Professor Sonia Horn: History of medical education, 18th and 19th centuries
  • Dr Gill Hudson: History of medicine
  • Ms Shelley Innes: Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Professor Ludmilla Jordanova: Cultural history of science and medicine
  • Professor Gerald Kutcher: History of medicine, science, public health and bioethics
  • Dr Emese Lafferton: Social history of science and medicine; history of psychiatry
  • Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd: Ancient science and medicine
  • Ms Helen Macdonald: History of ecology
  • Dr Lara Marks: History of the biotechnology industry
  • Professor Jim Moore: Social history of 'science and religion' since 1800
  • Dr Ayesha Nathoo: History of 20th-century medicine, science and medical communication
  • Dr Alison Pearn: Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Dr Sadiah Qureshi: Endangered peoples and human display in the 19th century
  • Dr Christine Salazar: History of military medicine
  • Dr Anne Secord: 19th-century popular science
  • Professor Rebecca Stott: Evolution and literature; 19th-century marine zoology
  • Dr Laurence Totelin: History of Graeco-Roman science and medicine
  • Dr Andrew Wear: Early-modern history of medicine
  • Dr Paul White: Life sciences in Victorian Britain
  • Dr Sarah Wilmot: History of animal breeding

Graduate students

For information on current MPhil and PhD students, see the list of graduate students.