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Brendan Clarke
Teaching Fellow in History and Philosophy of Science
Contact
b[dot]clarke[at]ucl.ac.uk
Room B.14, 22 Gordon Square
Office hours: 11-12, Tuesdays and Thursdays (or by appointment)
ext: 32959
telephone: 0207 679 32959
http://twitter.com/#!/philmedman
Current teaching
- HPSC2005 Philosophy of Biology
- HPSC2020 Revolutions in Medicine
- HPSC3004 / HPSC3026 Dissertation / Intercalated Research Project
- HPSC3027 Evolution in Science and Culture
- HPSC3028 Observation and Discovery in Medicine
I'm also a year 1 personal tutor, as well as the Intercalated BSc liaison tutor.
Research
I'm interested in the history and philosophy of the life sciences. In particular:
- viral causation of cancers (PhD topic)
- classifications (causal or otherwise) in the life sciences
- reductionism in the biological sciences
- history and philosophy of anatomical illustrations
- synthetic biology
More information about my research is available here. You can also find my PhD thesis (title: Causality in medicine with particular reference to the viral causation of cancers) here and a review by Raffaella Campaner at dissertationreviews.org.
Publications
Clarke, B. 2012. "Causation in Medicine" in Gonzalez, W.J. (ed). 2012. Conceptual Revolutions: from Cognitive Science to Medicine. La Coruna: Netbiblo.
Clarke, B. 2011. "Causation and Melanoma Classification," Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 32(1): 19-32.
Sharma, A., Machen, K., Clarke, B., Howard, D. 2006. "Is Undergraduate Otorhinolaryngology Teaching Relevant to Junior Doctors Working in Accident and Emergency Departments?," The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 120: 949-51.
View in PubMed.
Recent Conference Papers
What is Life? Synthesis exchange laboratory 4th-9th July 2011. UCL.
Revisiting Charles Bell’s Medical Images: A Plurality of Representative Practices British Society for the History of Science annual conference 14th-17th July 2011. University of Exeter.
Abstract [259kB PDF]
Produced in collaboration with Chiara Ambrosio
Charles Bell at UCL: Medical Images, Representative Practices and the Aims of Integrated HPS
Department of Science and Technology Studies, UCL
Sixth Annual UK Workshop on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, 18th April 2011.
Produced in collaboration with Chiara Ambrosio
Classifications of melanoma
3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice
University of Exeter
22nd—24th June 2011
Clarke_SPSP2011_abstract [252kB PDF]
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