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MuseumBlogs.org is a directory of (at present 98) museum and museum-related blogs. The majority of the posts are from the RSS feeds of the blogs listed in the directory (we don’t yet, but Benny will soon help us install the function). The site was developed by Ideum, a small design company that develops interactive exhibits and websites for […]

Believe it or not — but this humble blog has been nominated for the 2006 Medical Weblog Award, in three categories: Best Medical Blog, Best Literary Medical Blog, and Best Medical Technologies Blog. Vote now, here!

Thinking of our anthology-in-progress (Biomedicine on Display), I’ve pondered possible ways of encouraging collaborative writing projects — and was inspired the other day by Laura Cohen’s post “Why Can’t a Wiki Be More Like a Blog?” on Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. Wikis are great for collective editing, but discourages people who “just” want to add […]

Medical gadgets on display for sale I’m just browsing around to find examples of biomedicine on display in a non-museum context, like this Fujinon 400 Video Endoscopy System by http://www.1800endoscope.com/. Some are better, some (like this one) are worse. But they demonstrate the variety of object display practices out there.

Sara Kjellberg (who writes her PhD on science blogging at the University of Lund and takes part in the Towards a New Materialism-seminar) summarizes the science blog year of 2006. The tendency is clear: Postgenomic and Scienceblogs have already become the two major science blog portals.

On Monday 29 January 2007, we (the Medical Museion research group) will present our research project on the historiography and museology of contemporary biomedicine at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. Here’s the program: Thomas Söderqvist: Introduction: The Problem Søren Bak-Jensen: Out of Time: Collecting and Storing Kidneys for Transplantation. Hanne Jessen: What is a Laboratory Animal? A […]

Isabelle Dussauge’s interesting comment to the earlier post on magical value of collections disappeared in some temporary spam comment box for a whole month — so we’ve reissued it below. Sorry for the fuzz, Isabelle!

It’s time to nominate and vote for the best medical blog in 2006. MedGadget, the ezine for new medical technologies invites to the third annual Medical Weblog Awards: “These awards are designed to honor the very best in the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the diverse world of medical blogs”. The categories are: Best Medical Weblog Best […]

Museum displays are not just about the exhibitions. The museum shop often gets as much, and sometimes more, attention (and usually has more effect on overall income than the entrance fees). We don’t have a museum shop yet, unfortunately, but when we get one I’ll vote for a full series of computer mice in the shape of organs, like this cute […]

Progress in biomedicine is not all about new methodologies, new empirical findings and new patents. It is also about new metaphors that guide and connect research efforts, technological innovation, investment activities, public opinion, and health political initiatives. Some metaphors are pushed over and over again, but never seem to take off — like the notion of “biosemiotics” which continuous […]

The final conference of the EU project “Challenges of Biomedicine: Socio-Cultural Contexts, European Governance and Bioethics” will be held at the University of Vienna, June 14-16, 2007 under the title “Engineering European Bodies: When Biomedical Technologies Challenge European Governance, Bioethics and Identities”

Looks like our spam filter is too efficient — in other words, it also blocks bona fide comments. Since we get about a thousand spam comments a day, we cannot spend time on sorting out which are sham and which are authentic. [Added 27 Dec.: now we’ve manually moderated all bona fide comments: excuses to Isabelle Dussauge, Mette […]