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Lektor og medicinhistoriker Adam Bencard fra Medicinsk Museion har skrevet en række artikler om aspekter af sårbehandlingens historie til fagtidsskriftet Sår. Tidsskriftet udgives af Dansk Selskab for Sårheling, og indeholder fagmedicinsk stof omhandlende sårvidenskab og sårbehandling. I de næste uger vil vi i samarbejde med Sår gengive en række af teksterne her på vores blog.

Corona-epidemien er en af de værste sundhedskriser i nyere tid, og derfor er det Medicinsk Museions ansvar som hovedmuseum for medicinens kulturhistorie at dokumentere den for eftertiden.

As we approach the end of March, many countries around the world from Mongolia to Paraguay to Greenland are preparing to ‘spring forward’ and move the clocks forward an hour. Each year, Daylight Savings Time (DST) brings with it passionate debates about whether it should be scrapped or retained. And in 2019, the EU member states voted to stop the observance of DST from 2021 – making this (possibly) the last year that the seasonal time change will be observed in Denmark.

Microbes on the Mind co-organizes a panel at the international conference on Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century*. The panel organizers are Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley from Medical Museion and CMBR, University of Copenhagen and Andrea Butcher, Jose Cañada and Salla Sariola from University of Helsinki. The title of the […]

Microbes in biomedical mental health discourse: Protagonists, heroes and carrier bags.
I’m presenting the paper at the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Annual Conference 2020 in Sheffield, UK.

This invitation to my colleagues in Microbes on the Mind kicked off two workshops with the method memory-work. The workshop course was a test-run of the memory-work method, an experiment and an engagement with Medical Museion’s exhibition Mind the Gut.

Bring your own human. This was the instruction (and name) for our workshop in September 2019. It is a simple, short and sophisticated instruction. As soon as you start thinking more about what to do, several questions quickly loom over you. Are you going to bring a fully-grown human or a human that just started walking on its own? Will you bring an entire human or maybe just a microbe on its pinky finger? Maybe you would rather like to convey a feeling of being human or let your audience become aware of the fact that they are humans experiencing right now.

En del af opgaven i Medicinsk Museions store samlingsprojekt går ud på at få dannet det fulde overblik over alle museets genstande, så de kan blive pakket og flyttet ordenligt til et nyt magasin. Dette foregår ved at gennemtrevle alle gamle registreringer, og sørge for, at der er overensstemmelse mellem disse og de numre, der står skrevet på selve genstandene.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical Museion and Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, since October 2019. The project I will be working on examines motivations to and contexts for dietary orientations of people who, for different reasons, have chosen to adhere to a diet specifically targeting the gut microbiome. The project […]

Råber dine tarme ’stop’ i stressede perioder? Svinger dit humør i takt med, at dine tarme laver knuder på sig selv? Bliv medforsker i dine oplevelser og mavefornemmelser, og del erfaringer og nysgerrighed med andre. Frist for at tilmelde sig forskningsprojektet er d. 20. februar 2020. Ph.d.-studerende Tine Friis rekrutterer deltagere til sin forskning på […]

Kunst og forskning er et hot topic for tiden. Med god grund. Det er et vigtigt emne, men det er samtidig også vigtigt, at det tænkes progressivt. Det kalder tiden på. Jeg har skrevet denne både kritiske og håbefulde “leder” baseret på mit mangeårige arbejde med kunst og forskning, som kurator på festivalen transmediale, udstillingsstedet […]

If I told you that I studied circadian rhythms, it probably wouldn’t mean very much to you. What about ‘chronobiology’? The biology part is easy enough, the study of living things, but what about ‘chrono’? These scientific names obscure a simple fact about being human that most of us take for granted – that our daily lives are governed by time.