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As you may know, Medical Museion takes part in a multidisciplinary Center for Healthy Aging here at the University of Copenhagen. Currently, two of our junior researchers, postdoc Lucy Lyons and phd student Morten Bülow, are doing their research projects within the scope of the Center, and we are about to recruit yet another phd student. It probably doesn’t come […]

The awe-inspiringly active philosopher Graham Harman recently wrote a blog post on Thomas Metzinger’s book The Ego Tunnel, in which the author interviews neurophysiologist Wolf Singer. Metzinger asks Singer why he is interested in philosophy, to which he replies that he believes neurophysiology can solve the problems of philosophy. This view — that the neuroscience […]

In August, the Danish Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) will arrange a ‘discussion of the broader implications of living technology’ that might be interesting to anyone who thinks the boundary between inorganic and organic, living and dead, or technology and humans is exciting. Or to anyone who wants to get a glimpse of the future […]

Der findes en hel del portrætter af ”Lægekunstens Fader”, men ligner de ham? Det er lige så svært at besvare som spørgsmålet om han selv er forfatter til bare et eneste af de skrifter som bærer hans navn. Ikke desto mindre er der folk som har arbejdet seriøst med begge dele, og som kan argumentere […]

Erik has taken some great images of new library buildings around the world, “the last cathedrals built for a dying medium”.

Instead of saying that we investigate an object, we often use the verb ‘inspect’. According to my dictionary, the ‘in-‘ prefix is an intensifier and the ‘-spect’ suffix is derived from the Latin verb specere, meaning ‘to look at’, ‘to see’. To ‘inspect’ then is more than just seeing or looking at something. It means […]

Sidder man alligevel i Nyhavn og nyder en kold drink i den tropiske sommervarme, er der god grund til at bevæge sig videre rundt i kvarteret og f.eks. gå en dejlig tur ned i Frederiksstaden, der ikke kun huser Amalienborg og Marmorkirken, men mange andre prægtige bygninger, heriblandt naturligvis Medicinsk Museion. Det er en historisk […]

Founded in 2002, the Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) aims to promote, within the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the medical humanities in education, healthcare and research. It has links with the BMJ journal Medical Humanities and has organized annual academic conferences since 2003. Courses on Medical Humanities are increasing in the UK and […]

In four earlier posts (# 1 here, #2 here, #3 here, and #4 here), I’ve argued for a more proactive practice with respect to the preservation of the contemporary medical scientific and technological heritage. The posts were provoked by Christian Sichau’s negative attitude (quoted here). There is no space for the new acquisitions, he claimed, and the exhibition curators receive all the museum money anyway. So […]

Man ved at Hippokrates blev født i 460 f.Kr., men man ved ikke hvornår han døde, kun at han blev meget gammel. Man ved heller ikke hvordan han ældedes, men mon ikke han har måttet opleve et og andet fra denne hippokratiske liste på egen krop? Aforisme III, 31: ”De gamles lidelser er: åndenød, halskatar […]

As this blog, among others, have claimed for some time, a ‘material turn’ is currently being added to the seemingly never-ending row of ’turns’ in the humanities and social sciences. An increasing number of scholars are switching their attention to materiality, material objects and material artefacts. History, philosophy and social studies of science and technology […]

 Hver dag i sommerferien på museets åbningsdage er der mulighed for at tage børnene med på Medicinsk Museion og få en børnevenlig omvisning. (Målgruppen er ca. 7-12 år) I dag gik jeg lidt for sjov med på en af disse børneomvisninger for blandt andet at få indblik i, hvordan børnene reagerer på de til tider […]