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Pillcam chic Whether one has undergone a gastrointestinal examination or not, most of us would agree that there’s nothing particularly cool about having your stomach examined by means of long tubes. Rather, we tend to find such exams unpleasant, distressing and embarrassing, not to mention what we think of the close-ups of our exposed bowels. […]

The Picker Merit low field magnetic resonance scanner represents a failed gamble in the history of MR-scanning in Danish public hospitals. Developed around 1990 by Instrumentarium in Finland , a company that was shortly after bought by Picker, the scanner was an attempt to go against the current trend at the time towards ever more […]

This micro-well tray, a proto-type produced in the early 1970s by Nunc A/S, was recently added to the collections of the Medical Museion. The tray, referred to as the Kissmeyer-Nielsen tray, was developed by Flemming Kissmeyer-Nielsen, head of the Tissue Type Laboratory at Århus Kommunehospital (now Skejby Sygehus). Kissmeyer-Nielsen was the leading Danish figure in […]

Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab belønner hvert år en studenteropgave inden for det medicin- og helsehistoriske område i bredeste forstand, herunder også odontologi og farmaci. Studenterprisen er på kr. 10.000. Præmien kan tildeles en eksamensopgave, f. eks. bachelor- eller OSVAL-opgave, der er blevet bedømt i det år, præmien uddeles i. Dog er specialer undtaget. Både studerende og […]

The first witness seminar to be held in Denmark (at least to my knowledge!) was held last week at the Panum Institute. Nine Danish medical doctors, either retired or in the final years of their career, gathered to discuss the historical development of the therapeutic procedure that had been central to their professional activities, and […]

2nd Annual Symposium of the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Network, 14-17 January 2007, hosted by the Medical Museion The symposium will focus on how the recent biosciences challenge and reconfigure formerly stable categories: The social and the biological, the nature/culture dichotomy and the human/animal boundaries are increasingly blurred and become populated by hybrids, cyborgs […]

Det kan have voldsomme og uforudsete konsekvenser i vores liv, når en ny teknologi afløser den gamle, velkendte. Ny middelalderhistorisk dokumentar afslører tilsyneladende ur-menneskelige (kropsliggjorte?) reaktioner…  😉 Se film her: ny_teknologi.wmv

DR bragte søndag d. 29. oktober en dokumentarudsendelse, der ved hjælp af skjult kamera viste, hvordan en spansk privatlæge var villig til at tilbyde en kvinde provokeret abort i 32. svangerskabsuge. Det satte ikke overraskende en debatstorm i gang. Jeg fik mulighed for at kommentere i Informations ‘synspunkt’ på side 3, og mit indlæg er klippet […]

Nedenfor findes planerne for Medicinsk Museions interne og eksterne tirsdagsseminarer i efteråret 2006 og foråret 2007. Se efterårets program her. Se forårets foreløbige program her. Programmet opdateres løbende. De eksterne seminarer er for alle interesserede, mens de interne er for Museions egne medarbejdere. Hvis ikke andet angives, er seminartidspunktet kl. 14-16. Bagefter mødes vi til […]

Museion-seminarerne har været holdt siden januar 2004. Nedenfor finder du oversigt over og materiale til afholdte interne og eksterne Museion-seminarer. Seminarer afholdt 2006-2007, se her. Seminarer afholdt december 2005-juni 2006, se her. Seminarer afholdt efterår 2005, se her; forår 2005, se her . Tidligere seminarer findes under kategorien seminarer.

MEDICINHISTORISK SEMINAR I LUND Fredag d. 8. december 2006 kl. 13.00-16.00 Sted: Sal F-1, Blocket, Universitetssjukhuset, Lund. Kaffe serveras.

Kidney transplantations are one of the most spectacular and controversial treatments in recent biomedicine. The history of kidney transplantations are one of the areas studies in the framework of the “Recent Danish Biomedicine”-project at Medical Museion, and in order to include not only written sources and archival material in this study, we have invited ten doctors to participate in a witness seminar on the subject.