The first medical textbook on anti-racist healthcare, launching in Parliament on Monday, warns that ethnic inequalities still run deep throughout UK medicine. Its authors argue that proactively fighting racism is fundamental to fulfilling a founding promise of the NHS: fairness.
On Saturday 28 March (1pm-3pm), join Theo and his colleagues Bisi Akintoye, Kojo Koram and Shayla Schlossenberg, a series of hands-on interactive activities we will imagine what futures beyond drug prohibition could look like here in Cambridge.
What does it really mean for a machine to be conscious – and are we closer than we think? Dr Tom McClelland reflects on the ideas, influences, and ethical questions behind his upcoming talk, Conscious machines? on 23 March.
This gulf in knowledge could be exploited by a tech industry intent on selling the “next level of AI cleverness”, argues Dr Tom McClelland.
Research reveals how a Welsh poet turned the story of the first ‘test-tube baby’ into a moving narrative that helped draw attention to the women involved.
Twelve academics from the University of Cambridge have been made Fellows of the prestigious British Academy for the humanities and social science
A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including MR James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long-lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a monster-filled epic. The discovery solves the most famous mystery in Chaucer's writings and provides rare evidence of a medieval preacher referencing pop culture in a sermon.
A new study takes a tour of the history of research into human embryology and development to show the "cycles of attention" that led to major scientific breakthroughs.
Tom McClelland is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He will be speaking about his and colleague Paulina Sliwa’s recent research findings on the much contested ground of who does the housework and what impact gender has in Seeing the mess: Gender, housework and perception at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science on Thursday 21st March 3-4pm.
Women’s working conditions increased the odds of them being suspected as witches, according to a new analysis of an English astrologer’s case files from the early 17th century.
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