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When I opened my mailbox this morning I found the following enticing message: Hello Thomas I’m writing this to let you know about a brand new featured post we just made over here at Medicareer entitled, “Top 50 Biotech Blogs.” I thought that you and your readers over at Biomedicine on Display might find it […]

A recent call for submissions to the journal Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies makes me think (again and again and again) about the unfathomable gulf between on the one hand biomedical practice and on the other hand literary and cultural studies about biomedicine. Concentric asks for papers for an issue on ‘bios’ — i.e., the […]

I dag, mandag den 1. marts, er en ny udgave af DSB’s passagermagasin “Ud & Se” på gaden (eller måske rettere på skinnerne). Dette nummer har været vente i spænding her på Medicinsk Museion. Som tidligere omtalt havde vi nemlig tidligt i januar besøg af journalisten Anette K. Nielsen og fotografen Jes Larsen/Territorium, der fik lov at gå på […]

Association for Medical Humanities 8th Annual Conference Mon 5th – Wed 7th July 2010: Truro and Tate St Ives, UK Humanities at the Cutting Edge: Conversations between surgery, pathology, the humanities and the arts This looks like it could be an interesting conference where invited speakers range from surgeons to artists and parallel sessions will […]

Besides the preservation and display of the contemporary medical heritage, one of my major research interests is the methodology of writing the history of contemporary science (see, e.g., The Historiography of Contemporary Science and Technology (1997) and The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology and Medicine: Writing Recent Science (with Ron Doel, 2006)). Now I am beginning to think […]

We’re just about to announce two new faculty positions here at Medical Museion — which raises the perennial problem of how to select the best candidates from dozens or more written applications. Seeing and hearing a person in live action often says more than thousands of words and an impressive CV. That’s why we interview selected applicants. But […]

Det hippokratiske skrift ”In the Surgery” regnes for nedskrevet på øen Kos af Hippokrates selv eller af  hans søn Thessalos. Det hedder på latin ”De officina medici”, idet det handler om det rum i lægens bolig som var indrettet til at varetage de opgaver som ikke kunne klares i patientens hjem. Hvad var det for […]

As we watch the political wrangling over healthcare reform in the United States, one key element seems to be left out: consumer demand. For better or worse, Americans expect and even demand high-cost technologically-embodied medicine. A recent article on robotic surgery in the New York Times really drove this point home. “Results Unproven, Robotic Surgery […]

Om blot en uge åbner vores lille fine udstilling med kun 6 genstande. Disse er nøje udvalgt fra samlingerne af en udefra kommende journalist, Anette K. Nielsen, fra månedsmagasinet Ud & Se med DSB. Anledningen til udstillingen er dermed givet, idet selvsamme journalist netop bringer en artikel i bladet Ud & Se, som kommer på gaden 1. […]

The most relevant academic question this year is asked by Paul Glasziou (Centre for Evidence-Based medicine, Oxford University), who gives a talk with this title in the Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, on Monday 15 March, at 10am (Øster Farimagsgade 5, room 15.3.15). The talk is based on his and I. Chalmers’s article […]

Her på Museionblog beskæftiger vi os mest med nutidens arbejde med den medicinske kulturarv. Det er sjældent at vi går langt tilbage i tiden. Her er Kirsten Jungersens fremstilling af de hippokratiske skrifter dog en kærkommen undtagelse (se det seneste eksempel her). Da jeg netop er ved at læse en bog om korstogene fandt jeg et interessant […]

I’m thrilled by the fact that an historian of medicine (Richard Barnett of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge) will chair a panel debate on health care in the digital age (taking place in Cambridge, UK, on Thursday) — it sustains the tendency that historians of medicine are becoming more engaged […]