medical humanities

Medicinsk Museion har modtaget en 3-årig forskningsbevilling på 4,2 millioner kroner fra Carlsbergfondet. Projektet, kaldet ‘Health Matters’, skal bidrage til vores forståelse af komplekse sundhedstilstande.

Ask a chronobiologists about the history of the discipline, and you find that specific places are central to it.

We are very excited to announce the launch a new pop-up display in collaboration with artist Isabella Martin called Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms. This new display is an opportunity to share the process of developing a collaborative artwork exploring the science of circadian rhythms. The pop-up, created by Isabella Martin and Museion researcher Kristin Hussey, presents the workings of creating a piece of video art responding to the work of chronobiologists at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR).

In last issue of the journal Isis (vol 107, nr 2, 2016), twelwe scholars discuss different aspects of The History Manifesto from the vantage point of the history of science, technology and medicine.

On May 21st, I will defend my PhD dissertation in the nice old auditorium at Medical Museion. The title of the dissertation is “Unsettling successful ageing: A history and queering of the concept of successful ageing in ageing research”, and the event lasts from 1 PM (sharp!) to 4 PM, followed by a small reception. […]

David took part in the workshop at Medical Museion on 8-9 March and took these beautiful photos of the event. David Pantalony: “These are a few photos and comments from the workshop “It’s not what you think,” March 8-9 2013 at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark. They offer merely a glimpse of some of […]

Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University Jane Macnaughton reports her experiences with the workshop It’s Not What You Think at Medical Museion on 8-9 March 2013 (excerpt): “Adam and Louise had attracted a very diverse group of scholars, museum practitioners, artists, philosophers, science communicators – and one clinician (that was me) (…) One of […]

Here are some topics that medical museums need to get involved with if we want to engage with contemporary healthcare: * Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care * Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems * Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems * Clinical Data and Knowledge Management * Cloud Computing for Healthcare * Collaboration Technologies […]

Myself and Adam Bencard will be heading off to Milwaukee at the end of September for the 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA). The theme for this year is ‘nonhuman’, chiming with many of the projects at Medical Museion that take a humanistic and material approach to medical […]

The trickster is clever and mischievous, crafty and artful, charming and entertaining. He or she lives outside established hierarchies, crosses boundaries and brings objects from one realm to the other. This character sprang to mind as we were discussing the identity of Medical Museion. What should the role be for museums in general and how […]

Readers of this blog may remember that the 2010 biannual European medical museum conference was organised here at Medical Museion. The next biannual meeting, in 2012, will be hosted by our German sister museum, the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, 13-15 September. The theme for the Berlin meeting is ‘Hidden Stories: What do medical objects […]

Public health history is a part of public health sciences. And the history of public health holds many great stories relevant for blogging. I just came across this blog about “the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery”. The blog is called The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice and is written by Lindsey Fitzharris, a medical historian at Queen Mary, University […]