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Der har igennem længere tid ligget en arbejdsopgave på min reol, som jeg er blevet ved med at udskyde, men nu er det endelig blevet tid til at tage fat på den. Da Panum Instituttet holdt sin årlige oprydningsdag den 18. juni 2009 var Medicinsk Museion tilstede som en slags biomedicinske skraldemænd (se mere her). […]

We have tried many different ways of marketing our exhbitions to the prospective audience (posters, direct-mails, postcards, you name it) — with varying success. One of the problems with posters and postcards is the one-way communication; if people want more information, they have to make an extra effort. In connection with the new extra-mural exhibition ‘Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Approach’ that opened two weeks ago […]

The Thackray Museum in Leeds is hosting an interesting meeting organised by artist Paul Digby on Saturday 20 March. Titled ‘Hybrid’ it gathers a group of interesting thinkers and practicioners on the interface between art and science: Siân Ede (Arts Director at the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and author of Strange and Charmed: Science […]

Fornyligt havde jeg fornøjelsen af at høre historien om kommunehospitalet, der til dagligt huser store dele af Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, fortalt af Thorkild I.A. Sørensen. Den er nu lagt på nettet i en forkortet udgave og den kan varmt anbefales. Historien kan findes her. God fornøjelse!

Just saw that Thomas Couser‘s new book Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Living has been published by Minnesota University Press. According to the blurbs Couser explores “the extensive number of personal narratives by or about persons with disabilities” and “brilliantly demonstrates through synoptic readings, [how] these works challenge the ‘preferred rhetorics’ by which such narratives […]

Recently I announced a quiz to get more information about a historical syringe that a couple of friends had bought for me. This quiz was far from easy since we had no information on the syringe whatsoever. Medical Museion’s guest researcher and former chief physician Sven Erik Hansen was the first to make a suggestion on our Danish blog — he thought it might […]

Contemporary biomedicine is full of plastic artefacts — from disposable gloves and syringes in the clinic to microwells and pipettes in the research lab. It’s materials and objects which make the preservation of the contemporary biomedical heritage for future generations pretty tricky. The short course ‘The Problem with Plastics’ given by Helen Alten at The […]

Kunstmuseet Arken laver pt. en spørgeskemaundersøgelse for at finde ud af, hvordan museerne kan sikre sig en central position som aktive medspillere i fremtidens kulturelle landskab. Dvs. spørgsmål som: Er de danske museer på omgangshøjde med den kulturelle udvikling? Hvilke særlige oplevelser kan museerne tilbyde i informationssamfundets brede vifte af oplysnings- og underholdningstilbud? Undersøgelsen (som er […]

As I’ve written about before, we have a small but excellent (and recently restored) collection of moulages here at Medical Museion. Like they have many places in Europe. Which made me quite excited to read Jim Edmonson’s travel report from Paris and the Musée des moulages de l’hôpital Saint-Louis on Avenue Claude-Vellefaux: Read more here.

A few months ago, I advertised the meeting ‘KörperGegenwart, neue Technologien, neue Sammlungen’ to be held at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden, 22-24 April. Now the program has been finalised — and it looks very good! After a plenary discussion on ‘Schauplätze der Schönheit: Klinik, Kunst, Medien und Museen’ on Thursday evening, there follows two days […]

Everyone who has spent hours engaged in social networking services may recognise themselves in Irene Angelopoulos’s vitriolic attack on the “depressing daily grind” of virtual life (in Adbusters yesterday): We toil late into the night, unleashing an endless stream of status updates and tweets in a desperate attempt to keep ourselves relevant, desirable and in […]

Der findes flere værker i den hippokratiske skriftsamling som er beregnet på at instruere begyndere i medicinstudiet i lægens korrekte opførsel over for patienter, pårørende, kolleger og kvaksalvere. Det gælder ”Law”, ”Precepts”, ”Physician I” og ”Decorum” som alle er sent nedskrevne. Disse småværker om etikette tåler ikke på nogen måde sammenligning med ”Eden” som er […]