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Here’s a loose idea provoked by the “Towards a new materialism” seminar in Lund last Thursday. When God gradually disappeared from the Western world-view in the 17th through 20th centuries, the idea of an outside moving agency was gradually substituted with the idea of a human interpreting and constructing agency. Human intentionality increasingly shared the place with God’s almighty power […]

The reading group “Towards a New Materialism? Exploring Artifactuality and Material Culture in History of Science, Technology and Medicine” which I presented in a post on this blog in early September has met twice now; last Thursday we visited Gustav Holmberg and his acquarium-ish seminar room at the Research Policy Institute at the University of […]

We have technical problems right now. We upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 a month ago which solved the former spam problem. But there is some bug in the program that distorts the layout. The ugly result you can see for yourself (in the header, to the right, and scrolling down). We’re trying to find someone who can fix the bug. Please be patient! Added: […]

Det kan have voldsomme og uforudsete konsekvenser i vores liv, når en ny teknologi afløser den gamle, velkendte. Ny middelalderhistorisk dokumentar afslører tilsyneladende ur-menneskelige (kropsliggjorte?) reaktioner…  😉 Se film her: ny_teknologi.wmv

DR bragte søndag d. 29. oktober en dokumentarudsendelse, der ved hjælp af skjult kamera viste, hvordan en spansk privatlæge var villig til at tilbyde en kvinde provokeret abort i 32. svangerskabsuge. Det satte ikke overraskende en debatstorm i gang. Jeg fik mulighed for at kommentere i Informations ‘synspunkt’ på side 3, og mit indlæg er klippet […]

Postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers are invited to attend the workshop ‘Approches to the History of Medicine: Discussing Methodology’ at the University of Warwick, Friday 19 January, 2007.

See below the winner of the British Society for the History of Science‘s competition for the best 500 word essay aimed at a general audience answering the question: “Why should anyone need to know about the history of science?” (The winner was Michal Meyer from University of Florida). Can you do it better in 500 words?

Nedenfor findes planerne for Medicinsk Museions interne og eksterne tirsdagsseminarer i efteråret 2006 og foråret 2007. Se efterårets program her. Se forårets foreløbige program her. Programmet opdateres løbende. De eksterne seminarer er for alle interesserede, mens de interne er for Museions egne medarbejdere. Hvis ikke andet angives, er seminartidspunktet kl. 14-16. Bagefter mødes vi til […]

I’m sorry about the font. It’s pretty ugly — and we’re trying to find out what’s gone wrong. Please have mercy with us!!

Here is an announcement for a workshop that asks some new and interesting questions about the status of ‘biosociety futurology’. The “Futures of Life” workshop is organized by the graduate students and faculty of the Department of S&TS at Cornell University and will take place April 27-29, 2007.  

(originally published 11 October; updated 20 Oct because of new comments):  Today’s (i.e., 11 October) big public health news report is the article by a Johns Hopkins University research team published in The Lancet on-line edition on the number of war-related casualties in Iraq. “We estimate”, the authors conclude, “that as of July, 2006, there have […]

The following report of the annual meeting of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology (Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, DGGMNT) and the Society for History of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, GWG) held in Braunschweig, 28 September -1 Oktober 2006 shows that the cultural history of science is flourishing in […]