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As you may have noticed, the blog has been idle for almost two weeks. We have been traumatised by the recent flood of spam. In fact almost 200 spam comments a day have come from these beasts who want to sell their online poker games, viagra pills, ‘cheap’ mortgages, etc., which they believe we are […]

The NSU Press is planning to publish an anthology about “Things” — not about “things” in general, but about “the pursuit of filtering away human experience from the thing — possibly to give it back to the world, or to let it speak for itself”, or, in other words, “all attempts at omitting human experience […]

The current issue of leading U.S. weekly newspaper The Onion carries a groundbreaking feature article on the upcoming season for transplant organ harvest

Finn Kamper Jørgensen, direktør for Statens Institut for Folkesundhed, har taget initiativ til en temadag den 7. juni om “Sundhedspolitiske erindringer fra min ministertid”, hvor otte danske sundhedsministre og en departmentschef fortæller erindringer fra deres embedstid. 40 minutter hver. Det er en interessant seminarform, på grænsefladen mellem mundtlig politikerselvbiografi og “vidneseminar” (witness seminar), som vil […]

A good seminar idea worth emulating: post-graduate students in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science (Cambridge) have a joint seminar where they present their research based on objects from the collections of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. In today’s seminar, Friday 19 May (why do they always announce these […]

A 1-day-conference on biobank governance is held at University of Vienna’s political science department, organized by the interdisciplinary research platform “Life-Science-Governance” (LSG): “Biobank Governance in Comparative Perspective: Strategies – Ethics – Resistance” This is from their announcement: This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the governance of biobanks. Biobanks constitute a new challenge for governance, and can […]

A forthcoming symposium — “The making up of organisms: Mapping the future of biological models and theories”, which will be held 8-10 June 2006 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris — illustrates the fascinating possibilities for mobilising the history, philosophy and social studies of biology and medicine for more future-oriented studies and as a […]

Udstillingsmediet er jo meget mangfoldigt og kan derfor bruges i mange forskellige sammenhænge. Fx. den kombinerede konference og udstilling om nanoteknologi, som Innovation Lab arrangerer i Århus den 1. juni i samarbejde med iNano centret på Aarhus Universitet og det danske nanoteknologiske netværk (NaNet). Mødet plus udstillingen (“Smallscapes”) er tilrettelagt for skandinaviske virksomheder, der ønsker […]

Good news for historians of medicine, viz., we are now having free online access to back issues of a number of biomedical journals at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov Here’s a excerpt from the press release from Wellcome Trust:

The Max Planck Research Network “History of Scientific Objects” Wandering Seminar has just finished a week’s intensive course at the Medical Museion. The group — 16 pre- and postdocs from a number of European universities (plus Harvard) — came to Copenhagen after a week at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. We (i.e., Anders, Camilla, Hanne, […]

A symposium with the titillating title “Historicide and reiteration” (and the more pedestrian subtitle “Innovation in the sciences, humanities and the arts”) will be held 9-10 February, 2007 at Maastricht University (nice town, worth a visit!). The meeting promises to touch upon some rather fundamental topics for science, technology and medical history museums. The dead-line […]

I sidste nummer af Weekendavisen (nr. 18, 5. – 10. maj, Ideer, s.9) gengiver Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen og Henry Nielsen de argumenter imod en naturvidenskabelig kanon, som bla. Helge Kragh og undertegnede udviklede i et temanummer af tidskriftet BioZoom for en måned siden. Men selv om det på overfladen ser ud som om Nielsen & […]