The Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge has secured core funding in the field of 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 teaching and postdoctoral research in medical history.

Funding of £263,387 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).

A website will be launched on ‘Making the visible embryo’ to be designed by Tatjana Buklijas, Research Fellow at HPS.

The purpose of these capacity-building grants is to provide core support for groupings of historians of medicine within UK universities. All institutions with a demonstrable commitment to the subject can compete.

The grant will strengthen the distinctively interdisciplinary medical history programme of the largest HPS department in the country. It will be used specifically to build expertise ‘From generation to reproduction’, within which the award-holders will intensify efforts to show how, since 1500, our world of reproductive practices and controversy was created.

The grant also brings Wellcome Trust recognition of the Department as one of ten UK history of medicine institutions at which postgraduate students are eligible for Wellcome master’s awards and doctoral studentships.

For more information on the Department, including the lively seminar programme, see http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk

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