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The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is announcing a job as heritage manager. The succesful incumbent shall lead a team of professional staff and will be responsible for the operation and development of the College’s museums and library including collections, exhibitions, archives, members’ services and the College’s historic buildings. Closing date is 2 October. More info […]

Center for Kunst og Videnskab har produceret et videopodcast om professor Helle Johannesen (nr. to fra oven). I videoen diskuteres medicinsk antropologi og alternativ behandling og jeg ville meget gerne have et par kommentarer. Er Johannesen “gone native” og i så fald, er det overhovedet et problem?

Three months ago, Nature Biotechnology (27: 514-18, 2009) published a commentary titled ‘Science Communication reconsidered’, a topic we are of course very interested in here at MedMus. I believe the commentary is still worth a comment, because it was written by 24 (sic!) more or less well known ‘experts’ in science communication, including Matt (“framing science”) Nisbett. The co-authored commentary — which […]

Det hippokratiske skrift ”Om menneskets natur” findes ikke oversat til dansk, så man må henvise til det under dets engelske titel ”Nature of Man” eller den latinske ”De natura hominis” (mellem venner “Nat. Hom.”). Det er det eneste af de hippokratiske skrifter man kender forfatteren til, og det er ikke Hippokrates, men hans elev og […]

Human anatomy is a fascinating thing and apparently there is something fascinating about wearing it also. I thinking especially of clothes with pictures or images that resemblance the human anatomy. As an example I often wear a T-shirt with a cranium on in. I don’t really know why or give it much thought. Really, it’s […]

A few weeks ago I attended the Science Online London 2009 conference – a conference on science communication in the new era of “the Web”. As they wrote on the conference homepage: The Web is rapidly changing the communication, practice and culture of science. Science online London 2009 will explore the latest trends in science […]

A couple of weeks ago I proposed a significant-medical-objects game — a sort of crowdsourcing/museum 2.0 procedure for the acquisition of objects for medical museums. Turns out there is a website called, yes, Significant Objects, which has a host of exciting writers attached. The site’s objective is different from my little game. It’s based on the books Buying In […]

Maintaining an exhibition like ‘Split and Splice: Fragments from the age of biomedicine’ is quite a job. Not many of us who frequently visit museums consider the time and effort put into maintaining the shows that we visit. We kind of take it for granted that the display cases are polished and we properly rarely […]

Some of you may remember Jim Edmonson’s talk here in Copenhagen three years ago about the plans for a new exhibition at the Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, on the history of contraception. Jim/Dittrick eventually secured funding for it. So tomorrow the new exhibit — ‘Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: A History of […]

2009 is the 100th anniversary of the notion of pH, proposed by the Danish chemist S.P.L. Sørensen. Shortly after having been appointed head of the Chemical Department at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1901, Sørensen started an extensive research programme on amino acids and proteins. One of his projects was the kinetics of enzyme dissociation; among […]

Again — we’re swamped with spam (the Akismet filter seems to have acquired swine flu). I didn’t lift a single eyebrow over spam advertising for penis enlargement , viagra, diet pills, twelwe different kinds of poker games, handjobs, blowjobs and an acai berry juice now and then. It was just irritating, not revulsive. But I must admit that I cannot really take this […]

Så er vores bidrag til årets Golden Days festival overstået og velafviklet. På billedet her ses – liggende – den britiske kunstner Phillip Warnell, og rundt på gulvet fra venstre, gastro-enterolog Simon Anderson, Søren Bak-Jensen, Adam Bencard, Pernille Leth-Espensen og Jan-Eric Olsén. På skærmen bag panelet ses en livetransmission fra Phillip Warnells mavesæk. Han ligger […]