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The third annual ‘Science & the Public’ conference will be held at the University of Manchester, Saturday 21 – Sunday 22 June, 2008. As the organisers point out, science communication is a much more complex thing than scientific journals and scientific meetings: Today the´sciences are linked to society through many different channels of communication. The public interfaces with […]

Medical Museion’s first large temporary exhibition — “Oldetopia: On Age and Ageing” —  opened last Thursday (11 October) and the following night (which was the Copenhagen Culture Night) we had about 2500 visitors in six hours between 6pm and 12pm. Here are some photos from Friday night (click for more here): 

Until recently blogs and blog posts have not been accepted as legitimate references in scientific writings. This state of affairs is seemingly about to change, however. The 2nd edition of the authoritative Citing Medicine: The National Library of Medicine Style Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers (2007) includes a new section (26C) with detailed instructions for how […]

In earlier posts (e.g., here, here and here) I’ve discussed new buzz-notions in contemporary biomedicine, like ‘translational medicine’. Another ubiquitous buzz-notion is ‘personalised medicine’ — i.e., “the use of detailed information about a patient’s genotype or level of gene expression and a patient’s clinical data in order to select a medication, therapy or preventative measure that is particularly […]

45 faculty members and about 20 PhD-students throughout the University of Aarhus (Denmark) have just started a new interdisciplinary network for science, technology and medicine studies. See their website at www.stm.au.dk for news about conferences, seminars, PhD-courses, etc.; send an e-mail to stm@au.dk if you want to subscribe to their newsletter or if you are interested in learning more […]

Last week, the Steno Museum at Aarhus University launched their most recent temporary exhibition. Named ‘ÆGløsninger‘, the display deals with reproduction, and especially with recent technologies aimed at either preventing or facilitating pregnancy. The exhibition is curated by Morten Skydsgaard and Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer. The exhibition is aimed at a wide audience, and it […]

Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 14:00-16:00 Christina Brandt (Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin) will discuss  fictional imaginations and literary representations of the figure of the clone (late 1960s to early 1980s) from a history of science perspective.  Location: Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Fredericiagade 18, 1310 København. Everyone is welcome. For more information, please contact […]

Apropos biomedicine and aesthetics — this week’s (28 September) issue of Science presents the winners of the 5th annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge which the magazine organises in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Here’s one of the two winners in the photography category: — which is a rendering of a CT-scan from a 33-year-old Chinese woman being examined […]

Continuing on Søren’s post (and Adam’s comment) and further on last week’s post about the short paper that Jan Eric Olsén and I gave at the Artefacts XII meeting at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo, 17-18 September: In the second part of the presentation we asked two participants to join us in a demonstration […]

Science Museum in London is re-advertising a position as exhibition curator for history of medical science and clinical medicine. Application dead-line is 12 October. Here’s the job description:

I just finished reading the contributions in Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective, collected by Julie Anderson and Carsten Timmermann, both at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. The articles present very interesting and carefully researched case stories, that testify to the continuing relevance […]

Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University College, Sweden, invites you to the symposium “Medical technologies and the life world: cultural and ethical perspectives” At Södertörn University College, Room MB505, 15-16 of November 2007.