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”Det er ikke muligt at nedfælde detaljerede, generelle regler for menneskers livsførelse som afbalancerer mængden af mad og aktivitet.” ”Men jeg har udfundet metoder til at afgøre hvad der har magten i den enkelte krop.” Disse selvbevidste ord er skrevet af forfatteren til et af de længste skrifter i den hippokratiske samling. Det bærer den […]

Guess what’s currently the most popular history of medicine topic among American science readers. Plague? Noops — it’s dissection and body parts: John Harley Warner and Jim Edmonson’s beautifully illustrated Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 (see earlier post about the book here) is right now among Amazon’s Top Ten Best […]

Psychiatric museums have come a long way since their early days. Before the 1980s, private collections of aficionados made up the field. Since then, several psychiatric museums have emerged. Today, these institutions have turned into modern museums creating numerous exhibitions and reaching large audiences. The most successful of the psychiatric museums have more than 140.000 […]

Gode artikler er som gode bøger: de bør deles. Derfor vil jeg meget gerne anbefale denne artikel om den spanske flue skrevet af museumsinspektør Jens Ingvordsen. Artiklen kommer vidt omkring og beskriver dels brugen af fluen og kommer også kort ind på brugen af plastre. På billederne ses en beholder med spanske fluer. Beholderen er en del af […]

In one of his last blog posts Thomas argued that university museums are basically elitist institutions.  Thomas argues that the basic success criterion for museums is the popularity of their exhibitions and number of visitors where on the other side the success criterion for a university museum is the quality and originality of their research. Of […]

The creative editors or Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (see earlier mention here) are planning a focused discussion section on scientific instruments in a forthcoming issue of the journal. With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a renewed interest in scientific instruments. Although they have […]

University of Copenhagen has several museums (among them Medical Museion). And our university isn’t alone. Many, if not most, universities around the world have their own museums, or at least historical collections. There are in fact so many of the kind that the international museum council (ICOM) has set up a subcommittee specifically for university museums and collections (UMAC). […]

Two years ago, in January 2007, our own Susanne Bauer co-organised a meeting titled ‘Contested Categories’ here at Medical Museion. Now, a proceedings volume with the same title, co-edited by Susanne and Ayo Wahlberg (formerly BIOS, LSE), has been published by Ashgate. From the back cover: Contested Categories presents a series of empirical studies that […]

På torsdag – d. 5. november 2009 – er det Design- og Håndværksdag. I den anledning viser en gruppe studerende fra Tekstilformidleruddannelsen på Håndarbejdets Fremme en lille udstilling af kjoler, der er syet med inspiration fra forskellige sygdomme. De præsenterer selv udstillingen således: Kroppen under nål og tråd Udstilling Kom og se resultatet af tekstilformidlerstuderendes […]

The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is looking for a new director. More here.

The three first weeks in November, we are holding three internal staff meetings here at Medical Museion to discuss our plans for the next three years, 2010-2012 — with respect to research, acquisitions, collection management, exhibitions and web-based outreach. Starting Tuesday, then again next Monday and next Monday again. Here are five headings for the […]

  I det fortløbende arbejde med at organisere og kategorisere Medicinsk Museions utallige genstande, er de sorte drenge nået til samlingen af ortopædiske hjælpemidler. Samlingen består af over 250 genstand og indeholder eksempelvis skinner, krykker, kropsproteser og træben (der ville gøre selv en sørøver misundelig). Samlingen spænder bredt over alt fra de mest simple støttetræplader, […]