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If you happen to be near or in Philadelphia the weekend after next, you may consider attending the upcoming Medical Film Symposium. A awesome lot of film-makers, -theoreticians, and -historians will watch and discuss films that explore “the relationship between moving images and medical science”. The Mütter Museum (no link provided, they have a malicious […]

Musician John Boswell has just released the third part (called ‘The Unbroken Thread’) in his Symphony of Science series of music videos — the explicit goal of which is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the masses, in a novel way, through the medium of music. Boswell’s thing is to remix and tune the […]

The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo is currently showing an exhibition called ‘Medicine and Art: Imagining a Future for Life and Love’, showcasing 150 works of art — some are installations designed by artists, other are historical medical artefacts that are contextually transmogrified into art objects by being situated in the art museum space, like […]

Titlen på det hippokratiske skrift ”Places in Man” som på latin kaldes ”De locis in homine”, dækker det man kalder en topografisk anatomi, d.v.s. en lære om de anatomiske regioner i mennesket. Det græske ord tópos betyder sted eller region. Ordet anatomi indgår ikke i titlen, fordi anatomi i denne tidlige periode kun betød opskæring […]

Can’t resist forwarding a query from Keni Sturgeon, curator at Mission Mill Museum (a textile museum in Oregon), on the ACUMG-list. Keni, who also teaches museum studies at Western Oregon University, is in the midst of planning “a graduate course on Small Museums” and would like some input from other small museums, especially college and university museums/galleries: […]

I seem to have acquired a strange interest in therapies involving animals. Especially if they trigger ‘the yuck factor‘. Leeches and maggots have been used for centuries and are also used in biomedicine today. Whereas these tiny crawling creatures are used externally (fixed on or in the skin), parasitic worms are used internally — the patient drinks a cocktail of […]

For noget tid siden indbød Martin Brandt Djupdræt fra Moesgaard Museum til en uformel gennemgang af museets udstilling Runer – fra graffiti til gravskrift. Se mere her. Det var vi nogle som synes var et glimrende initiativ. Derfor vil vi her på Medicinsk Musion gerne følge op og indbyde kolleger og fagfæller til et arrangement […]

For et par år siden trykte DSB-bladet Ud & Se en meget smuk og interessant fotoreportage fra Zoologisk Museum. Dengang kan jeg huske, at vi talte om, at sådan en ville vi også gerne stille op til. Jeg tror endda, det blev til en opfordring til bladet om at kigge forbi Bredgade, men det affødte ikke umiddelbart noget… før nu. I marts 2010-nummeret […]

Science centers — institutions for the promotion of public engagement with science and technology — have mushroomed all over the world since Frank Oppenheimer started Exploratorium in San Francisco more than forty years ago. (Jessica has just written an interesting review of K. C. Cole’s recent biography of Oppenheimer). Would you agree with this view of […]

If you are interested in the history of the body and happen to be in Copenhagen in mid-January, you may consider attending a guest lecture by Ulrike Thoms from Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, titled ‘Consuming Bodies: The human body in the light of science’. The lecture takes place on Tuesday […]

A couple of friends who know about my interest in the history of disease recently gave me a historical syringe as a gift. They bought it in a flea marked, so unfortunately I don’t have any information about its provenance. Ion Meyer (conservator and head of collections here at the Medical Museion) suggests, with some help from catalogues of medical equipment, that it […]

I think first-person accounts — that is, acccounts about oneself and one’s relation to the world told in ‘I’-form, as opposed to accounts of ‘you’, ‘he/she’ or ‘they’ — are fascinating. Such accounts tell something about the people who produce them and they also reveal much about their authors’ relations to others and the culture and environment they live in. […]