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Position Governing Body Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Email ssa32@cam.ac.uk
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Salim is a historian of medicine specialising in the history of modern reproduction, public health, and disability. He teaches in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Salim has a BA in History from UCL, and an MPhil and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. After completing his PhD on the history of antenatal care in Britain, he joined the Wellcome Trust-funded ‘Generation to Reproduction’ Strategic Award at Cambridge as a Research Associate. He held a fellowship at the University of Manchester at Teaching Associateships at Cambridge before being appointed to an Assistant Professorship in 2020.

Broadly interested in the histories of modern medicine, biomedical sciences and public health, Salim's research has explored transformations in the experience and management of pregnancy and childbirth since the late nineteenth century, from the rise of hospital birth to the introduction of new technologies prenatal diagnosis.

Much of Salim's current work has focused on the relationship between medicine, disability, and reproduction, including how disability becomes defined, medicalized, and marginalized in modern British history. He is currently working on a book that examines the history of folic acid as a technology of pregnancy, with its implications beyond reproduction for the globalization of biomedical knowledge, the management of risk and the role of consumer activism in shaping public health policy.

Salim has also published widely on the visual and material and cultures of science and medicine, including toy chemistry sets, nutritional supplements, anatomical images, and educational films.

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Giving Day Fair

06/05/2025 at 10.00

Welcome to ��ɫ��Ƶ's first-ever Giving Day!

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Standard language ideology, linguistic nationalism and marginalisation: the case of South Korea

06/05/2025 at 17.30

What are the consequences of standard language ideology and linguistic nationalism?

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Music & Madeira: Celebrity Guitar Classics with Craig Ogden

06/05/2025 at 18.30

A household name to listeners of Classic FM and BBC Radio 3, with a string of number one recordings, Craig Ogden is one of the most successful classical guitarists of his generation. With thanks to Prof Brian Moore for sponsoring this, the inaugural Brian Moore Guitar Recital.

��ɫ��Ƶ Research Event 2025

08/05/2025 at 09.30

Join us for the 2025 ��ɫ��Ƶ Research Event: an interdisciplinary academic conference organised by students to showcase the diversity of the research carried out by ��ɫ��Ƶ students.