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Culture at the Macro-Scale: Boundaries, Barriers and Endogenous Change
Making Climate History
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Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power
Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power overview
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Summer School
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Reading Group #1
Reading Group #2
Reading Group #3
Reading Group #4
Reading Group #5
Reading Group #6
Methods and Critical Issues Training: AI and Gender Studies
Methods and Critical Issues Training: History, Policy, Designing AI
Methods and Critical Issues Training: Doing Genealogy: Knowledge, Power, AI
Methods and Critical Issues Training: Historical Methods
Methods and Critical Issues Training: A Feeling for the (Neural) Organism
Community Research Seminar: Practices of Re-presentation: Zines, Visualizations & Outreach
Fellowships and awards
Fellowships and awards overview
Rebecca Charbonneau
Jenny Moran
Maya Indira Ganesh
Rafael Grohmann
Marina Hassapopoulou
Sanaa Khan
Olessya Kirtchik
Bruno Moreschi
Ranjini Canchi Raghavendra
Noopur Raval
Cierra Robson
Jun-E Tan
Di Wu
Community bibliography
From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security
From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security overview
Call for papers
How Collections End: Objects, Meaning and Loss in Laboratories and Museums
Tools in Materials Research
Epsilon: A Collaborative Digital Framework for Nineteenth-Century Letters of Science
Contingency in the History and Philosophy of Science
Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University
FlyBase: Communicating Drosophila Genetics on Paper and Online, 1970–2000
The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936
From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge in Germanic Lands and Beyond, 1300–2018
Medical Publishers, Obscenity Law and the Business of Sexual Knowledge in Victorian Britain
Kinds of Intelligence
Varieties of Social Knowledge
The Vesalius Census
Histories of Biodiversity and Agriculture
Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments in the Whipple Museum Collection
Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984
The Casebooks Project
Generation to Reproduction
The Darwin Correspondence Project
History of Medicine
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Sixteenth Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
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Postgraduate study
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Why study HPS at Cambridge?
MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine overview
A typical day for an MPhil student
MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society
PhD in History and Philosophy of Science
PhD in History and Philosophy of Science overview
Part-time PhD
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The Dialectic
The Anthropocene
The Greenhouse
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Decolonise HPS Working Group
Power and Identity in Philosophy of Science
Science Communication Reading Group
AD HOC
Integrating the History and Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group
Calculating People
Philosophy and History of Physics Reading Group
Early Science and Medicine Work-in-Progress
Kinds of Intelligence Reading Group
Ethno-Science Reading Group
Casebooks Therapy
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Latin Therapy
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Michaelmas Term 2020
Easter Term 2020
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Easter Term 2018
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MPhil specification
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mphil-specification.pdf
