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MR-neuroimaging and other methods for studying brain function have been used for some time now to provide criminal defence evidence in courtrooms, at least in the US. But how does neurowiring relate to classical judicial concepts like ‘intent’ and ‘responsiblity’? Can neuroscience offer excuses for criminal activity? The Triple Helix Cambridge (www.camtriplehelix.com) organizes a debate about […]

On 11-12 December, the Postgraduate Forum on Genetics and Society — set up ten years ago to “bring together researchers interested in how biosciences and society(s) intersect” — organizes a colloquium at Lancaster University on the theme ‘Social and biosciences – a critical collaboration’. Keynote speech from Steve Sturdy (Genomics Forum Deputy Director), panel session with Richard Tutton (Lancaster), Niall Scott (Uclan) and Adam […]

I fredags åbnede Medicinsk Museion igen dørene til åbent hus arrangement i forbindelse med årets Kulturnat. For et museum som vores svarer sådan en aften til næsten to måneders besøgende, så det giver os en god mulighed for rigtig at vise os frem og sprede kendskabet til, hvem vi er, og hvad vi har at […]

As usual, and as announced earlier, Medical Museion took part in the Copenhagen Night of Culture (Kulturnatten) — a mid-October Friday each year when hundreds of museums, galleries and other institutions in the inner city area are open all evening. We didn’t have as many visitors as we use to have — ‘only’ slightly above 2000 passed through the doors during the six opening hours. […]

Quite a few medical conditions can be seen on the visible parts of the body. Artists have sometimes used such disease signs to catch an individual’s medical identity — Henry Moore’s 1970s portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin‘s arthritic hands is a well-known example (see Patricia Fara’s article in Endeavour 2003, pp. 85-86). If the condition isn’t visible, however, few people deliberately display their disease, its symptoms or […]

Medicinsk Museions udstillingsleder Camilla Mordhorst er for øjeblikket på et halvt års forskningsophold ved Stanford University i USA. Her skriver hun på artikler om udstillinger og tænker nærmere over, hvad det egentlig er, dette medie kan. En lille flig af dette arbejde løfter hun sløret for i et interview i det netop udkomne nyhedsbrev fra svenske Riksutställningar. Her […]

Our own Camilla Mordhorst has been interviewed in the last issue of Riksutställningar’s newsletter (in Swedish). Most exhibitions in cultural history are amazingly traditional, she claims. The Wellcome Collection in London is one of the few which have developed new, exciting narrative techniques, and so has the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg. But otherwise most museums seem to be afraid of experimenting too […]

Medicinsk Museion hoppede i januar 2008 på Facebooktrenden, her godt 9 måneder senere har vi 139 fans både fra ind og udland. Vi var det første danske museum på Facebook, herefter har andre fuldt trop bl.a. Nationalmuseet. Hvis man så skal gøre status på, hvordan vores virtuelle venneforening har virket, og om det var efter hensigten, er […]

I sidste uge fik alle medarbejdere her på Medicinsk Museion instruktioner i, hvordan man skriver poster her på Museionblog. Det kribler i hjørnerne, og jeg kan se, at der er mange spændende indlæg på vej. Men vi oplever også generende børnesygdomme, der bremser et ellers lovende flow i indlæg. Lige nu bøvler vi med at lægge billeder ind. Der arbejdes på […]

During the medical garbage collecting day in late May, we brought in a number of wonderful and interesting medical artefacts to our collections, including this plastic mannequin from the Department of Odontology (it’s Camilla to the left). Now Vanessa tells us that Steve Erenburg (a.k.a. radio-guy), a New York based artefact dealer, has this dental mannequin called Dentman — an aluminum head sitting on a cast […]

The Imagine Science Film Festival will be held 16-25 October in New York. The objective of the festival is to showcase films (especially fiction films) that “effectively incorporate science into a compelling narrative while maintaining credible scientific groundings”. The public will join scientists in learning and imagining science through visual storytelling. Films with bio/medical content […]

Science dancing goes back at least to the classic “Protein Synthesis: An Epic on the Cellular Level” performed at Stanford in 1971. And as the organizers of the 2009 Science Dance Contest say, the human body is an excellent medium for communicating science, “perhaps not as data-rich as a peer-reviewed article, but far more exciting”! This data-poor but body-rich contest […]