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A notice in the September issue of the Economist, reminds us of the impact of biotechnology on contemporary culture. With the global spread of genetic information and steadily falling prices on computers and other hardware devices, biotech is finding new user groups among biology graduates and computer aficionados who turn their living rooms into veritable […]

(Denne post var oprindeligt publiceret den 16. august, men er genopslået, pga den debat som har udfoldet sig i mellemtiden, se kommentarerne) Invitation til stiftende generalforsamling i faglig forening for STS i Danmark, 16. november 2006. Tema: Bredden og synligheden i dansk STS Science and Technology Studies er et internationalt, multidisciplinært felt, som er i […]

Spændende symposium i Zürich 5. -6. oktober 2006! Om film, dyr, bevægelse, fiktion, videnskabsmænd i film, kønsperspektiv på sterilisation, popularisering, bevisførelse og eksperimenter m.m.: Wissenschaft im Film – Film in der Wissenschaft Science in Film – Film in Science Wissenschaftshistorisches Symposium der SGGMN / SSHMSN

Together with Nete Schwennesen (Biocampus and Institute of Public Health), we (Hanne Jessen and Susanne Bauer, Medicinsk Museion) are organising a conference “Contested Categories”, 15-17 January 2007. This event is an open continuation of last year’s DK-UK network meeting , now the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group, at BIOS (LSE), London and will take […]

A 1-day-conference on biobank governance is held at University of Vienna’s political science department, organized by the interdisciplinary research platform “Life-Science-Governance” (LSG): “Biobank Governance in Comparative Perspective: Strategies – Ethics – Resistance” This is from their announcement: This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the governance of biobanks. Biobanks constitute a new challenge for governance, and can […]

… talking about biological citizenship etc – this has just arrived in my mailbox: Call for papers: Embodiment and the State Middelfart, Denmark, October 27-28, 2006 Keynote speakers: Margaret Lock, McGill University – Allan Young, McGill University – Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics – Berardino Palumbo, University of Messina – Sarah Nettleton, University of […]

Our session proposal “Scientific Visualisations in Disturbance” for the above conference has been accepted. Here are the abstracts. Session organisers: Susanne Bauer, Christine Hanke, Jan Eric Olsén

Last Friday, the 10th of February, I and some other forty curious spectators, gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to witness the artist Phillip Warnell swallow a pill camera and discuss the view of his belly with consultant gastroenterologist Dr. Simon Anderson. The event took place between 3.00pm and 8.00pm, which was approximately […]

Jens Lohferts forelæsning om “Litteratur og medicin” ved det eksterne Museion-seminar d. 7. februar blev optaget af StudenterTV. Forelæsningen sendes på Kanal København mandag d. 6. marts kl. 11.30 til 12.30.

I mine desperate forsøg på at være først med noget som helst her på bloggen (eller bare at være på bloggen) er ingen nyhed for lille eller triviel.

Indtryk fra en studietur 18.-21. januar 2006 Studieturen gik til Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museum og til Deutschen Hygiene Museum i Dresden.