History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

The History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine cluster is the focus of a number of research activities.  Firstly, its staff members co-ordinate an M.A. of the same name.  As such, many of the members of the group are postgraduates who have completed the M.A. and continued their research within this group.  The centre, which is one of only a few of its kind in the UK, provides exciting opportunities for dialogue between philosophers and historians with a range of interests in science and medicine.  Members of the group have been and continue to be involved in a number of major Wellcome Trust projects. These include projects on 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representation' and 'Medical Ethics In Imperial Germany'. The latter resulted in the book Doctors, Honour and the Law.

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The following is a list of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine members:

Staff

Dr. Matthew Eddy - Seventeenth- to nineteenth-century forms of scientific representation and argumentation, including historical conceptions of mind, memory, matter, time, language, visuality, informatics, human origins and religion.

Prof. Holger Maehle (Co-ordinator) - Ethical issues in the history of medicine, history of medicine and the life sciences, history of pharmacology.

Dr. Robin Hendry - History and philosophy of quantum physics and chemistry, scientific method and rationality, scientific realism and anti-realism.

Dr. Ian Kidd - Epistemology; ethics, history and philosophy of science C18 - 19, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion.

Dr. James Kennaway - History and philosophy of medicine, aesthetics and music.

Prof. David Knight - History and bibliography of science between about 1600 and 1900, history of popular science, nineteenth-century chemistry, including biography of Humphry Davy, science & spirituality in the 19th century.

Dr Peter Vickers - Inconsistency in science, scientific realism/anti-realism, eliminativism and pluralism, the methodology of philosophy of science (especially prospects for integrated history and philosophy of science).

Students

Mr. Daniel Becker - History of endocrinology.

Ms.Victoria Blake - History of clinical sciences, professionalism, phenomenology and medicine. 

Mr. Jay Bosanquet - History and philosophy of science and primarily nineteenth century natural history and geology.

Ms. Victoria Brown - History of medicine.

Mr. Tom Bunce - Historiography of science, historical and philosophical issues in quantum mechanics and scientific realism.

Ms. Rachel Dunn - John Dalton, visual culture of experimental science, British dissenting academies.

Ms. Stephanie Eichberg - Life sciences, experiments, human-animal analogy in experiments.

Ms. Cheryl Lancaster - Stem cell research, philosophy of biology.

Mr. Sebastian Pranghofer - Representations of the body, anatomical discourses.

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