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The Museum of Science of the University of Lisbon will host the next Universeum Meeting (www.universeum.de), 6-8 July, 2007.

The organizers of the International Committee for the History of Technology’s 34th Symposium in Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-18 August 2007 are extending the deadline for proposals until 15 March 2007. The theme of the symposium is “Fashioning Technology: Design from Imagination to Practice” — which, by default, also includes the fashioning and design of medical technologies.

Pillcam chic Whether one has undergone a gastrointestinal examination or not, most of us would agree that there’s nothing particularly cool about having your stomach examined by means of long tubes. Rather, we tend to find such exams unpleasant, distressing and embarrassing, not to mention what we think of the close-ups of our exposed bowels. […]

We (that is, the “Biomedicine on Display” group) were invited to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Monday January 31, to give a minisymposium on our project (see program here). Here is the travel party, i.e., the research group plus our department administrator plus our department’s outreach officer, after arrival at Arlanda airport: From left to right: Søren Bak-Jensen […]

Jim Spadaccini, director of Ideum, has created a special search engine (a Google Co-op) for museum blogs. Try it here.   

The Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine of the University of Mainz is inviting to a symposium on “Remaking the Future of Health? In Search for Individual and Public Health in the Age of Genomics”, 29 – 30 June 2007. See more below:

Many publich health officers and historians of medicine maintain that the eradication of smallpox is one of the greatest public health achievements of the twentieth century. In this meeting series at the Wellcome Trust in London, a number of health managers and field personnel who were involved in the smallpox eradication programme of the 1970s will present their […]

The Picker Merit low field magnetic resonance scanner represents a failed gamble in the history of MR-scanning in Danish public hospitals. Developed around 1990 by Instrumentarium in Finland , a company that was shortly after bought by Picker, the scanner was an attempt to go against the current trend at the time towards ever more […]

BBC Radio 4 launches a new series in 30 parts about the development of Western medicine, from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. Written and narrated by Andrew Cunningham, research fellow in Dept of HPoS, Univ of Cambridge. Starting Monday 5 February 2007 at 3.45pm and then every weekday for the next six weeks. More info here. (thanks to Jette […]

David Smith and Norval Strachan at the University of Aberdeen are currently preparing a grant application for a three-year project on historical trends in poultry-related Salmonella and Campylobacter food poisoning 1980–2005. If the grant application is successful the project will begin in September 2007. The project would involve oral history interviewing, archival research, collecting and […]

This year’s bi-annual meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) takes place in Exeter, UK, 25-29 July 2007 — hosted by The Centre for Genomics in Society.   The ISHPSSB (“Ishkabibble” among friends) meetings are informal and relaxed summer meetings where a diverse crowd of people from all […]

The current issue of Dialogue, the Leeds-based online journal for contemporary art practice, edited by Michael Corris, focuses on how to develop “a picture of artists operating in and within the fields of science and technology”.   (Antony Hall, ENKI Prototype, 2006; from Dialogue issue 4, january-april 2007) The special issue includes an article by Charlie Gere (“The […]