Spyt forbudt!
Bakterier bor i spyt og kan smitte med sygdom. I dag ved vi det godt. Men i starten af 1900-tallet lærte store oplysningskampagner mod tuberkulose os at holde på mundvandet og synke spytklatten.
SPYT FORBUDT!
The Living Room at Medical Museion: A guided tour into the imaginary of the room
In this blog post, I invite you on an introductory guided tour into the conceptual imaginary of the Living Room at Medical Museion. Let me begin with a story. In 1940, a wig was donated to Medical Museion. It was the colour of strawberries and had belonged to a...
Dreaming of big noisy mushrooms: a peek into the first stages of a sonic experiment
As I attempt to grow Pink Oyster Mushrooms in my office at home (in a very low-fi DIY version) I am equally disgusted and excited by the presence of the mycelia. I have never tried growing any sort of mushroom before and the process triggers lots of questions and...
On Microperformativity: New publication between art, science and performance studies
While the Covid pandemic has made people more aware that non-human agency has a large impact on human lives, artists and performers increasingly address microscopic actors that indeed have macroscopic effects. This new publication with the international journal...
THE LIFE OF VIBRIO CHOLERAE
The life and behaviour of the infectious agent are often at the centre of scientific research on infectious disease. Currently, the structure and cycle of SARS-CoV2, the covid-19 virus, is being studied by a host of scientists attempting to locate possible sites of...
Epidemics, embodiment and Sartrean slime
The epidemic chaos, of the body, of other bodies, and of national borders, reminds us – among other things – that we are mortal, perishable. We are material bodies that are subject to the whims of nature and rely on very real structures to carry out our lives. While...
We are colonizers and colonized
You are a colonizer – and so am I Look around you. What did you touch before opening this blogpost? What are you touching at this very moment? Perhaps you are sitting on a chair, leaning up against a wall, touching your phone or typing on the keyboard in front of your...
Writing from the Gut (Microbes)?
One of the driving questions for the Microbes on the Mind project (click here) is how we can represent a more-than-human body; how we can depict, write, feel, perhaps even hear and smell ourselves as partly microbial. We study how others have approached this...
We are making a podcast about microbes
The overall theme is to explore the role of microbes as an inherent part of our culture and everyday life. Through four themes: food, parenthood, wellbeing & health as well as microbes in art & fiction, we explore how we live with microbes, how we imagine them...
Micro Worlds Workshop
Micro Worlds is a speculative workshop, bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the multiple ways in which museums and their collections can function as sites to better understand our relationship with microbial worlds. What if, we want to ask,...
Participated in the research group The Body of Animals
Max Planck institute for the history of science: The Body of Animals. I Participated in the research group The Body of Animals in 2018-2019. “Animals have been central to humans in their attempts to understand their world and in revealing the secrets of nature....
Materiality Beyond Machines: Reading Early Haraway
Last week I presented the following paper at the British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium 2020, as part of the ‘Materialities’ panel. Materiality beyond machines:Reading early HarawayJoana Formosinho, PhD FellowMedical Museion,...
Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care Workshop
XiSan village, Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, photo Pelin Tan, 2018 Cosmological Gardens: Land, Cultivation, and Care is the first in an ongoing series of workshops and projects by the Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research (CAD+SR) in partnership with the...
Jean Painleve: Film Screening
“Advocating the credo “science is fiction,” Painlevé managed to scandalize both the scientific and the cinematographic world with a cinema designed to entertain as well as edify. He portrayed sea horses, vampire bats, skeleton shrimps, and fanworms...
Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms
We are very excited to announce the launch a new pop-up display in collaboration with artist Isabella Martin called Z-Time: The art and science of circadian rhythms. This new display is an opportunity to share the process of developing a collaborative artwork...
AT INDFANGE EPIDEMIER – – ny udstilling med fotos af Nicolai Howalt
Medicinsk Museion, Københavns Universitets museum for medicinens kultur og historie, åbner mini-udstillingen AT INDFANGE EPIDEMIER: Fotografier af Nicolai Howalt den 13. november 2020. Udstillingens fotografier forsøger, ligesom lægevidenskaben, at indfange epidemier....
Samtaler om forbundne kroppe
Hvilke spørgsmål bliver hvirvlet op om samfundets indretning, behandlingsmetoder og dagligt liv, hvis vi forstår vores krop som gennemløbet af og forbundet med sin omverden? Vores forsknings- og formidlingsprojekt Verden er i dig (Læs mere om projektet via linket)...
Vortebreve og vestsjællandske læger
For den medicin- og kulturhistorisk interesserede registrator kan arbejdet med Medicinsk Museions protokollerne til tider være særdeles interessant, oplysende og bevægende – samt ofte ganske morsomt.Se blot konceptet vortebreve, som optræder flere gange i Museions...
HK-medarbejder søges (1-årig stilling, 37 t/u)
Har du lyst til at være del af et universitetsmuseum og en forskningsenhed, der i disse år udvider sine aktiviteter med hastig fart? Kan du forestille dig at arbejde med administration og økonomi i et spændende krydsfelt mellem sundhedsvidenskabelig forskning,...
‘A Game of Bones’
Oprydning i den Saxtorphske samlings knoglepræparater Har du nogensinde tænkt på, hvad du ville gøre, hvis der kom rod i din bækkensamling? Næppe. Men netop det spørgsmål var for ganske nylig meget aktuelt på Medicinsk Museion, hvor vi i forbindelse med samlings- og...
LIFE SUPPORT – NY WEB-UDSTILLING UDFORSKER LIVET UNDER COVID-19 PANDEMIEN
Medicinsk Museion, Københavns Universitets museum for medicinens kultur og historie, lancerer i dag web-udstillingen Life Support – Tanker om livets opretholdelse under en pandemi, der blev udviklet i foråret under Covid-19 pandemiens første bølge. Udstillingen tager...
Krigens ansigter
’Den, der vil være kirurg, må gå i krig’. Sådan står det skrevet allerede i det Hippokratiske korpus, en samling af lægeskrifter fra det antikke Grækenland. Og sådan har det været gennem historien. Krigen har været kirurgiens motor, dens trykkammer. Og sådan var det...
Fremtidens sårbehandling: Bakterier i såret, bakterier i tarmene (5:5)
Lektor og medicinhistoriker Adam Bencard fra Medicinsk Museion har skrevet en række artikler om aspekter af sårbehandlingens historie til fagtidsskriftet Sår. Tidsskriftet udgives af Dansk Selskab for Sårheling, og indeholder fagmedicinsk stof omhandlende...
Singers, songs and the more-than-individual holobiont
When you take an evolutionary view of Earth, an astonishing reversal takes place. Suddenly, things that you think of as real—this cat over here, my cat, whose fur I can stroke—become the abstraction, an approximation of flowing, metamorphic processes, processes that...
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