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August Krogh (1874-1949) var professor i dyrefysiologi ved Københavns Universitet fra 1916. Han var meget opfindsom og fingernem til at konstruere apparater til fysiologisk forskning. August Krogh og hans hustru, lægen Marie Krogh (1874-1943), studerede forskellige aspekter af stofskiftet.  I starten beregnede de stofskiftet ud fra målinger af udåndingsluftens rumfang og indhold af ilt og […]

Når man kommer kørende ad Hovedvej 19 fra vest mod Hillerød tårner tre røde murstenssøjler sig op i horisonten i det bakkede grønne marklandskab. De tre søjler drager den interesserede til at køre ind på en grusstensbelagt plads, sætte køretøjet for først at få en uventet spadseretur igennem en idyllisk anlagt urtehave for så at […]

Skal lægen gribe meget aktivt ind i sygdomsforløbet, eller skal han blot bistå naturen? Lægekunstens historie har i perioder tillagt Hippokrates begge holdninger, og også den senere latinske vending ”vis medicatrix naturae” (naturens lægende kræfter) er blevet brugt i begge retninger, f.eks. som begrundelse for voldsom åreladning. Som man i dag læser samlingen af hippokratiske […]

Here’s the introduction to a talk titled ‘Cultures of Meaning and Cultures of Presence: The use of material objects in the history of science, medicine and technology’ that I gave at the Museo da Ciencia da Universidade Lisboa two weeks ago (see flyer here and resumé in Portuguese here); the images are from the web and for […]

Thomas Söderqvist gør på vores engelske blog opmærksom på, at én af hans yndlings websites, Medgadget, for øjeblikket lancerer en Medicinsk Museums konkurrence. De foreslår, at du besøger dit lokale medicinske museum. “Chances are that no matter where you live, there is a medical museum nearby. Maybe it’s an overlooked building in the center of your city, or a hospital library. Inside, […]

Will this become the abstract of the 2010s? We report the design, synthesis, and assembly of the 1.08-Mbp Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0 genome starting from digitized genome sequence information and its transplantation into a Mycoplasma capricolum recipient cell to create new Mycoplasma mycoides cells that are controlled only by the synthetic chromosome. The only DNA in […]

One of my favourite medical technology websites, Medgadget, is launching a Medical Museum Competition.   They suggest you visit your local medical museum: Chances are that no matter where you live, there is a medical museum nearby. Maybe it’s an overlooked building in the center of your city, or a hospital library. Inside, you’ll find bizarre […]

Just got an email saying that the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim has announced a postdoc position to study “the production of images of the interior of the human body on the cellular level”. See more about the background for the project here: The […]

Den norske fotograf Øystein Horgmo, der driver bloggen “The Sterile Eye – Life, death and surgury through the lens, har været på besøg på Medicinsk Museion. Det er der kommet en meget smuk fotoreportage ud af, der i den grad har fået det bedste ud af vores gamle hus og udstillinger. Se reportagen her.

The ongoing battle between university administrators and teaching staff is in the process of claiming another victim. The well-renowned Department of Philosophy at Middlesex University is being closed down, much to the dismay and disbelief of staff, students and philosophers across the world. You can read much more about the debacle here, here and here. Below is […]

Oslo-based medical photographer Øystein Horgmo (The Sterile Eye) made an incognito visit to Medical Museion two weekends ago — and has now written a very nice travel report + slide show, which includes some of the best photos of our artefacts on display that we’ve ever seen in the public domain. I’ve never had a chance to meet Øystein in […]

Medical Museion is on Facebook. Not because because we love it, but because we follow the siren calls of other museums that believe they need this part of the social media spectrum to be visisble online. Personally, I just hate Facebook. It’s not just the sneaky way they treat their customers (see the long list of their objectionable […]