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Research projects overview Naming Species in the South Pacific Digitising Philippine Flora Colonial Natures Natural History in the Age of Revolutions In the Shadow of the Tree The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby Culture at the Macro-Scale Histories of Artificial Intelligence From Collection to Cultivation How Collections End Tools in Materials Research Epsilon Contingency in the History and Philosophy of Science Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University FlyBase The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science From Hansa to Lufthansa Medical Publishers and Obscenity Law Kinds of Intelligence Varieties of Social Knowledge The Vesalius Census Histories of Biodiversity and Agriculture Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments Before HIV The Casebooks Project Generation to Reproduction The Darwin Correspondence Project

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Undergraduate study overview Introducing History and Philosophy of Science Frequently asked questions Routes into History and Philosophy of Science Part IB Part II Part III BBS options

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Postgraduate study overview Why study HPS at Cambridge? MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society Funding for postgraduate students Frequently asked questions

PhD in History and Philosophy of Science

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Part II overview Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3 Paper 4 Paper 5 Paper 6 Primary source seminars Research methods seminars Writing support seminars Dissertation seminars

BBS Part II

BBS Part II overview Early Medicine Modern Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Philosophy of Science and Medicine Ethics of Medicine Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine

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MPhil students' guide

MPhil students' guide overview About the course Subject areas Key dates and deadlines Examining

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Essays and dissertation overview How to choose the topic of your essays and dissertation

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PhD students' guide overview Welcome to new PhDs Registration exercise and annual reviews Your supervisor and advisor Progress log Intermission and working away from Cambridge The PhD thesis Submitting your thesis Examination

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Seminars and reading groups overview Departmental Seminars The Anthropocene Coffee with Scientists Cabinet of Natural History AD HOC History of Medicine CamPoS Philosophy of Experimentation Reading Group History of Science in Latin America Psy-Phi Reading Group Global HPS History and Philosophy of Physics Reading Group Normative Theory and AI Research Group Cambridge Reading Group on Reproduction Calculating People Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group HPSTM in East Asia Values in Science Reading Group HPS Workshop Language Groups

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