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In three earlier posts (here, here and here), I’ve argued in favour of a more proactive acquisition practice with respect to the contemporary medical scientific and technological heritage. Against some curators who believe we need to restrict acquisitioning (for economic, space etc. reasons), I suggest that we should rather open up the sluice gates for collecting as […]

Hospitalspræst på Rigshospitalet, Christian Busch, gæsteblogger med en historie om et fotografi fra Fødselsstiftelsen i Amaliegade, København. Dette er det andet af to kapitler. Historien om et fotografi, af hospitalspræst Christian Busch (Christian.busch@rh.regionh.dk) Lørdagsdåb i Den kongelige Fødselsstiftelses dåbskapel. Som nævnt i det forrige kapitel viser fotografiet dåb af de børn, der af hemmeligtfødende kvinder var overladt […]

I and my family made summer vacation plans quite some time ago, so I’m going to miss Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine’s swan-song conference titled ‘The Future of Medical History’, to be held at Goodenough College, London, 15-17 July. The preliminary programme lists a long array of interesting papers. Those interested in displaying recent biomedical science display might for […]

It’s hard to escape the impression that the humanities (including medical history, medical humanities, etc.) are living a wobbly existence, balancing on a fine line over the two abysses of social reductionism and biological reductionism. Are patients and their diseases social constructions or bags of biochemical reactions? Do these reductionist trends have any room left for […]

Over de næste uger vil hospitalspræst på Rigshospitalet, Christian Busch, gæsteblogge her på siden med en historie om et fotografi fra Fødselsstiftelsen i Amaliegade, København. Dette er det første af to kapitler. Historien om et fotografi, af hospitalspræst Christian Busch (Christian.busch@rh.regionh.dk) Da jeg begyndte som præst på Rigshospitalet for 20 år siden hang der et […]

Der er den første hippokratiske aforisme, og så er der alle de 411 andre. Den første er meget berømt og aldeles med rette. Den lyder sådan: ”Livet er kort, kunsten lang, øjeblikket tilspidset, forsøget usikkert, afgørelsen vanskelig. Man skal ikke blot selv yde sin pligt, når man griber ind, men også få den syge og […]

Travel guides and leisure sections in the newspapers regularly list museums you just “must” see. But I’ve never actually seen a list of museums that I’m supposed to be discouraged from visiting. Until now — here’s one that covers “the most unnecessary museums in the United States”:  The Museum of Bad Art: The justification for […]

Namely the new journal Philosophy & Technology, which “aims to publish the best research produced in all areas where philosophy and technology meet”. The editors welcome “high-quality submissions, regardless of the tradition, school of thought or disciplinary background from which they derive”, etc. The range of coverage is pretty broad and interdisciplinary — original approaches to classic problems in […]

Nynke Birgitte Genee, kandidatstuderende i dansk på KU, skrevet for en tid siden en opgave på kurset i kurset ‘Anvendt museologi’ med titlen ‘En sanselig og poetisk oplevelse af biomedicinen: om den æstetiske formidlingsform i udstillingen i det medicinskhistoriske museum Medicinsk Museion’. Kurset fokuserede på det tekstlige niveau i udstillinger, især genstandstekster, men man arbejdede […]

Scientometrics is a Sword of Damocles hanging over anyone who wants to come to fame and fortune in the field of biomedicine. Coming of age (it’s exactly 50 years since Eugene Garfield started publishing Science Citation Index, now Web of Science), methodologies for the alleged quantitative measurement of ‘scientific excellence’ have proliferated in the last decade — […]

We’d love to see a long meeting series under the title “How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts and Materiality in X Studies”, where X could be alternatively Science Studies, History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, etc. But first out was “Organization Studies” — to take place 16-18 June, 2011 on the Greek island Corfu. More info […]

Medicinsk Museions Lucy Lyons er ved at lave projektet “Nu ser jeg det!” (Now I see it!), der i sin korte version handler om at tegne for at se. Her på Panums oprydningsdag er Lucy også med, og hun har hele dagen tegnet indkomne genstande og inviteret kolleger fra hele Panum til at prøve. En […]