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I went to the Nobel Museum seminar on exhibiting science in museums last Monday (26 March) where Marika Hedin from the Nobel Museum    spoke about the challenges in exhibiting the history of modern science (the experiences of science centres, problems in funding/sponsoring, relations with the scientific community, etc.).

The National Institutes of Health are ending their search for a new director of the Office of NIH History with a series of public seminars by the candidates for the position: Thu 29 March: Dr. Marcia Meldrum of the University of California, Los Angeles: “Measure for Measure: James Hardy and Henry Beecher on the Problem of Pain […]

Fact is, when installed correctly, spam filters work for most mail programs. My own experience is that it works for 49 out of 50 mails, so I may have missed recent developments in pharma spam mail design –like this one that arrived in my inbox a few minutes ago:   Spam mail used to be pure […]

Here’s another artist (cf. the former post on the Genpet) who creates web sites to comment on contemporary biomedicine. Australian artist Justine Cooper has created a site for the mock drug Havidol which is “the first and only” treatment for Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). In an interview, Cooper says that her critical acumen is […]

The 5 March issue of the Danish medical weekly (Ugeskrift for Læger) reports the results from a qualitative study of pregnant women’s choice of prenatal ultrasound scanning. It turned out that rational risk assessment seems to be a less motivational factor than doctors had expected. Instead, women tended to get involved in the scanning procedures more […]

Efter tirsdagens heldagsseminar på KU om Abort og fostrets etiske status blev jeg i dag interviewet til P1s Orientering om abortpolitikkens historiske baggrund (med udgangspunkt i ph.d.-afhandlingen). Meget behageligt interview af Astrid Fischer, og ift. mediestrømmen ellers luksuriøst megen tid til at fortælle sin historie til en meget bredere kreds. Kort sagt: En top god mulighed som ville være […]

The next research seminar at Medical Museion takes place Tuesday 11 April, 2-4pm, when Solveig Jülich presents her research project “Scientific research, photojournalism or special effects? Lennart Nilsson’s visual hybrid practices”. Internationally, Lennart Nilsson is best known for his images of foetuses that were first published in Life magazine in the 1960s and have since […]

Next Monday, 26 March, 4-6pm, I will attend the research seminar at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm to hear Marika Hedin speak about “Challenges of Exhibiting the History of Modern Science”. (Those who register at bokning@nobel.se will receive a copy of Marika’s background paper, which btw. is also written for the conference “History and the Public” at Swansea University 12-14 April.) Commentator at the […]

(for our Danish/Scandinavian readers): Our acquisitions curator, Søren Bak-Jensen, has written a set of guidelines for the acquisition of contemporary medical objects into the collections, including a list of FAQ’s (so far in Danish only). Comments are welcome, either directly to Søren or below: 

Medical Museion is arranging a three-part symposium over three days (17-19 April, 2007) on the notion of ‘presence’. In the last couple of years several scholars in the humanities, like Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Eelco Runia, have contributed to our understanding of the conceptual distinction between ‘meaning’ and ‘presence’. The distinction is especially interesting for museological practices and for […]

The editors of NordNytt, the Nordic journal for ethnology and folkloristics, are distributing this call for papers for a thematic issue on “Museums in between art, culture and science”:

The Science Communication group at Imperial College, London, are inviting to the annual “Science & the Public” conference on Saturday 19th May 2007. General info here.