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I had a medical museum curator’s nightmare early this morning. Last night I read that Galaxy Zoo expects 1 million visitors on their site to help classify galaxies during the next 100 hours. “Completing this challenge will not only be another significant step towards our goal of producing the world’s largest and most detailed catalogue of classified galaxies, but […]

                      Det er ved at være sidste chance, hvis man skal nå at se to gode udstillinger her i København: Design4Science her på Medicinsk Museion og Everything You Can Think of Is True på Det Kongelige Bibliotek. De to udstillinger er som udgangspunkt vidt forskellige, men på en måde handler de om det samme: Om det […]

Et af de helt store projekter her på Museion er vores kommende særudstilling “Del og hel: brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid”. Udstillingen er godt undervejs og i denne uge har vi allerede fået installeret den første del. Jeg må selvfølgelig ikke fortælle for meget, men jeg tænkte, at jeg lige ville give et lille glimt bag kulisserne. […]

The Director’s office of Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen announced today that the museum will put all its collections on Twitter. Hundreds of thousands of material artefacts (from electron microscopes to conjoined twins in pickles), tens of thousands of medical historical images, and hundreds of shelf meters of archival documents will be compressed, catalogued and publicly communicated in the Twitter […]

Our colleagues at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (in DC) are right now experiencing a dramatically increasing traffic from all over the world to their unofficial Repository of Bottled Monsters blog. From about 100 views a day to 300 views an hour last week. The reason for this stunning outreach success is that Wired.com and many […]

Nick Carr (Rough Type) has an interesting comment about Wikipedia. Referring to an essay in yesterday’s Sunday Times by Noam Cohen, who likens Wikipedia to a city with features like ‘basic civility, trust, cultural acceptance and self-organizing qualities’, Carr points out that policing is an increasingly important feature of the popular online encyclopedia: It’s the fact that Wikipedia has […]

Det korte svar er: ”nej!” Hippokrates (5.årh.f.Kr.) udførte åreladning (flebotomia) med en skalpel, men anvendte ikke igler i sin behandling. Igler nævner han kun som sygdomsvoldere, hvis man har fået dem til at sidde fast i svælget efter uforsigtigt at have drukket flodvand.   Nikandros af Kolofon (3.årh.f.Kr.) beskriver i sit læredigt ”Alexipharmaka” (modgifte) samme […]

In an interview for the Danish daily Information about his new book The Politics of Climate Change — which is scheduled for publication in May, with laudatory pre-blurbs by Martin Rees, Ulrich Bech and Bill Clinton on Amazon.com — British sociologist Anthony Giddens reminds us that Martin Luther King famously said ‘I have a dream’, not ‘I have a nightmare’. In […]

The paper that Susanne and Jan Eric (who are both working in our ‘Biomedicine on Display’ project) presented at the third Surveillance & Society conference in Sheffield in April 2008 (see earlier blog post here) has just been published in the journal Surveillance & Society (vol. 6, 2009). Here’s the abstract: This article explores two instances of medical […]

I næste nummer af tidskriftet Bibliotek for Læger  (200 års jubilæumsnummer) kommer der er interview med mig om lægevidenskab, humanisme og nye menneskesyn. Interviewet er lavet som en let redigeret mailudveksling mellem mig og tidskriftets redaktør, Christian Graugaard. Hele interviewet publiceres under overskriften ‘Næste stop: Blog for Læger’. Her er den første mailudveksling: — Kære Thomas, […]

Research animals in the history of 20th century biomedicine has received quite a lot of attention in recent years. And what animal is more interesting than the pig! Our colleagues in Health Services Research Unit here in Copenhagen are announcing a three-year position as PhD-student in a new research project, headed by Lene Koch, called “Modelling pigs and humans: Understanding […]

Bag udstillingen Design4Science’s visuelle festfyrværkeri ligger en masse interessante og inciterende historier som let kan trækkes frem via internettet. Årtierne efter anden verdenskrig blev en guldalder for udforskningen af livets store molekyler, DNA, RNA og proteiner. Stedet var i udpræget grad Cambridge, England, Laboratory of molecular biology, (LMB). Laboratoriet opstod ved en knopskydning fra fysiklaboratoriet, Cavendish-laboratoriet. Ved brugen fysiske og […]