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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

The people listed here work centrally in history of medicine and allied sciences. Many other colleagues have relevant interests; see the full list of Senior Academic Staff, Research Fellows and Teaching Associates, and Affiliates.

Senior Academic Staff

Research Fellows and Teaching Associates

Emeritus

Affiliated Scholars

HPS Scholars in the Collegiate University

  • Dr Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic): Anglo-Saxon medicine
  • Professor Martin Johnson (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience): History of recent embryology
  • Mr Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
  • Professor Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College): History of science; cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book
  • Dr Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): History of modern medical technologies
  • Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History): Global and imperial histories of science, technology and medicine
  • Professor Richard M. Smith (Department of Geography): Historical demography and the social history of medicine
  • Dr Emma Spary (Faculty of History): History of natural history; history of food and consumption
  • Professor Simon Szreter (Faculty of History): History and public policy
  • Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College): Early 20th-century human sciences

Generation to Reproduction

 

Cambridge historians of medicine and biology are taking a long-term, cross-disciplinary approach to the history of reproduction.

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Making Visible Embryos

 

Explore our online exhibition on the history of embryo images.

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The Casebooks Project

 

Browse and search Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's records of thousands of consultations.

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