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Liv Carlé Mortensen, “The Amazone” (from Huskegruppen’s website) Medical Museion’s new exhibition, ‘The Face of Disease’ (‘Sygdommens Ansigt’), inspired by Susan Sontag’s seminal, and now classical, essay Illness as Metaphor (1977) opens today, Thursday 24 August. The (uncensored) exhibition can be seen 24 hours a day in the 25 basement windows of Medical Museion at […]

Earlier today I went to the opening of Mette Bersang and Louise Bøgelund Saugmann’s exhibition “Suspended between breathing in and breathing out” in the subterranean passage between the Panum Institute and the Danish National Hospital (Rigshospitalet) in Copenhagen (see announcement and flyer here). It’s a fairly small exhibition (only 14 pictures) of photos of interieurs […]

We tend to think of recent biomedical artefacts as more or less spectacular high-tech things, like gene sequencers, PET scanners, PCR machines or knock-out mice. But many vital artefacts in the biomedical laboratory or medical clinic are mundane things — like plastic gloves, ink markers and centrifuge tubes. They may not be so fancy, but […]

Like all historical research, the study of contemporary science, technology and medicine partly hinges on the existence of rich archives. (It’s also dependent on interviews and field-work, but that’s another issue.) The status of such archives is not without problems, however. They pivot on scientists’ interest in depositing material; their widespread use is closely connected […]

Spændende symposium i Zürich 5. -6. oktober 2006! Om film, dyr, bevægelse, fiktion, videnskabsmænd i film, kønsperspektiv på sterilisation, popularisering, bevisførelse og eksperimenter m.m.: Wissenschaft im Film – Film in der Wissenschaft Science in Film – Film in Science Wissenschaftshistorisches Symposium der SGGMN / SSHMSN

Celebrity plays an enormous role in popular culture — just think of film making and Academy Awards (Oscars). Yet with some exceptions, e.g. a recent conference and a follow-up blog, Academia (of the university kind, not the film industry’s!) shuns the phenomenon of celebrity. Neither have historians of science, technology and medicine paid much attention […]

The Danish National Hospital (Rigshospitalet) in Copenhagen has an exhibition “Suspended between breathing in and breathing out” by photo artists Mette Bersang and Louise Bøgelund Saugmann. The exhibition can be found on the lower level, at staircase 42. It opens on Wednesday 23 August at 4PM and closes on Thursday 28 September:

The Scientist is now running a series of personal profiles of scientists that resonates with the classical Greek tradition for biography writing. The old Greeks didn’t primarily think about life writing as a kind of history, but as an ethical genre. By reading about someone else’s life you were supposed to learn how to shape […]

Here’s the final programme of the 11th meeting in the “Artefacts” series, titled “Constructing and Deconstructing Icons of Achievement in Science and Technology”, which takes place in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-16 September 2006 (Note: this is now a closed meeting)

The Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen hosts a meeting on “Epidemiology from different perspectives” (“Epidemiologi set fra forskellige faglige vinkler”), 12 October, 1-4PM (room 2.1.12, CSS, Copenhagen). Our own Susanne Bauer starts with a presentation of her research project on data collection practices in recent epidemiology.

Science blogs are not among the most popular on the net. But they exist and some are highly ranked. News-nature has just listed the 50 most popular science blogs (i.e., blogs written by scientists). The most popular (Pharyngula) has rank 179 of the approx. 51 million blogs out there (per 13 August 2006) listed by […]

An article in the current (5-11 Aug) issue of the leading weekly magazine of progressive global capitalism, The Economist, asks why economists spend valuable time blogging? Because it is “a place in the intellectual influence game” as an interviewee puts it. The article concludes that blogging professors may actually help raise the economic status of […]