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I’ve always wondered why bioethics and research ethics are routinely referred to as obligatory passage points in most biomedical and life science PhD programmes — and why science communication is more rarely emphasised in postgraduate training. Does this emphasis on ethics and the corresponding  lack of attention to science communication reflect a deeply felt need from the side […]

I just got a mail from Springer that offers me to publish my short article on crowdsourcing and museum acquisitions (forthcoming in NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin) in their so called ‘Open Choice option for Open Access programme’, so that it can be “freely available to everyone everywhere”. I love open […]

The good old History of Science Society (HSS) and most other history of science, technology and medicine meetings continue the tradition of organising endless rows of parallell sessions, each with the standard 3-4 papers á 20 minutes + concluding Q&A. But some societies are trying something new. Just got the call for next year’s Swedish history of science […]

Det seneste halve år har særudstillingen Del og hel. Brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid fyldt stueetagen på Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62, København K. Oprindeligt skulle den have været pakket sammen nu, men vi har valgt at forlænge udstillingsperioden. Dermed er det muligt at se den spektakulære og meget smukke udstilling helt frem til d. 4. april 2010. […]

De hippokratiske skrifter, Corpus hippocraticum, (CH) er en stor samling af græske tekster, der i opbygning, mangfoldighed og betydning for den vestlige kultur næsten kan sammenlignes med Biblen. Jeg vil forsøge at give en lille oversigt over dem.

In late March, Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard (which several of us here at Medical Museion met when she gave a seminar here a couple of years ago and who is now working at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge) is organising a meeting of great relevance for anyone interested in biomedicine on display, whether in […]

Af alle de ca. 60 skrifter som er overleveret i den hippokratiske samling, er der ikke et eneste som med sikkerhed kan tilskrives selve den berømte Hippokrates fra øen Kos. Derimod kan man med den anerkendte Hippokratesforsker Jacques Jouanna argumentere for at visse af skrifterne i samlingen absolut ikke er af Hippokrates, men derimod stammer […]

Today (Nobel Day!), Thursday 10 December at 8pm, Obervatory/Morbid Anatomy in New York hosts a talk by Mütter Museum‘s new director Robert Hicks, titled “Exquisite Corpses: Illustrated Lecture & Artifacts from the Mütter Museum”. I guess it’s too late now to get on the morning flight (unless you borrow Air Force One which stands idle […]

European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) afholder sin 15. konference i København den 16. – 19. september 2010 under temaet “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums”. Konferencens fokus er den udfordring, den nutidige udvikling inden for biomedicinsk forskning og medicinsk teknologi stiller museumsverden over for. Citat fra […]

The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held at the University of Copenhagen, 16–18 September, 2010. This year’s conference focuses on the challenge to museums posed by contemporary developments in medical science and technology. The image of medicine that emerges from most museum […]

The ICOM subcommitte on University Museums and Collections (UMAC) has set up a moderated list to facilitate exhange of information between university museums. The list is open also to non-UMAC members. See more here — for subscription, go to: https://listes.u-strasbg.fr/sympa/unistra.fr/info/umac-ml

My blood pressure rose this morning when I read Google CEO Erik Schmidt’s rebuttal of Rupert Murdoch’s attack on Google (published 1 December as an op-ed in Wall Street Journal, of all places). Not because he strikes back at the old newspaper dinosaurs. I don’t mind, I hardly read paper media any more. The reason […]