Research guides

• Writing philosophy – Peter Lipton
• How to organise a history essay or dissertation – Sachiko Kusukawa
• Tools and techniques for historical research – Jim Secord
• Library resources in the history and philosophy of science – Tim Eggington
• Scientific instruments – Boris Jardine, Joshua Nall
• Scientific manuscripts – Paul White
• Rarities, collections and the history of science – Silvia De Renzi
• The history of the book – Adrian Johns
• Science in the media – Jim Secord
• Oral history – Michael Bravo, Sophia Davis

• Bibliographical directions: ancient period – Serafina Cuomo
• Ancient Egyptian science – Annette Imhausen
• History of medieval science – Rosamond McKitterick
• Medieval and early modern mathematics – Jacqueline Stedall
• Medieval and early modern universities – James Hannam
• Early modern astronomy/cosmology – Nick Jardine
• History of 18th-century natural history – Emma Spary
• Early modern medicine – Lauren Kassell
• History of nutrition – Emma Spary

• The earth sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries – Jim Secord
• Science, technology and medicine in German-speaking Europe since 1800 – Nick Hopwood
• Natural history and biology in the 19th century – Gordon McOuat, John van Wyhe
• Environmental history in HPS – Helen Macdonald
• Science and empire – Sujit Sivasundaram
• History of anthropology and science and race – Sadiah Qureshi
• History and philosophy of psychoanalysis – John Forrester
• Sciences of mind in 19th-century Britain – Alison Winter
• Gender and science – Leon Rocha
• History of modern medicine – Nick Hopwood
• 20th-century life sciences – Soraya de Chadarevian
• History of 20th-century physical and chemical sciences – Jeff Hughes
• History of modern mathematics – Jeremy Gray

• Realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of science – Paul Dicken
• Causation – Alex Broadbent
• Social epistemology – Martin Kusch
• Philosophy of physics – Jeremy Butterfield
• Philosophy of biology – Tim Lewens
• Sociology of scientific knowledge – Martin Kusch
• Ethics in science and medicine – Paul Miller

Introduction

The purpose of the research guides is to provide helpful information for Part II, Part III and postgraduate students beginning research in HPS at Cambridge.

The articles are widely varied in their approaches, emphases and degrees of specialisation. No attempt has been made to provide standardised or comprehensive bibliographies – though you will find references to such bibliographies here.

Please note that some of the contributions are so valuable we have retained them even though they have become rather out of date. In such cases it is worth checking to see whether the works listed exist in later editions.

The information in these articles may not be complete, and we take no responsibility for the accuracy of the material. So always remember rule number one of research – check your references!