Cambridge History of Medicine Enhanced

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of
Cambridge (U.K.) has secured core funding in the history of medicine from the
Wellcome Trust. The five-year enhancement award recognizes the Department's
re-establishment as a centre of undergraduate teaching, postgraduate training
and postdoctoral research in medical history. Funding for studentships, research
leave, a website, seminars, workshops and conferences has been awarded to Nick
Hopwood (history of modern medicine and biology), John Forrester (history and
philosophy of psychoanalysis and psychiatry), Lauren Kassell (early modern
medicine), James Secord (history of life sciences) and Nick Jardine (history of
natural history and historiography of medicine). The grant will strengthen the
distinctively interdisciplinary medical history programme of the largest HPS
department in the U.K. It will be used specifically to build expertise in the
area ÔFrom generation to reproductionÕ, within which the award-holders will
intensify efforts to show how, since 1500, our world of reproductive practices
and controversy was created. A major public-engagement activity will be a
website on ÔMaking the visible embryoÕ to be designed by Tatjana Buklijas. For
more information, see http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/medicine/index.html

 

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