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Apropos our own small but rich exhibition about sex and society: a museum of abortion and contraception (Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch) is opening in Vienna, Austria in May. Read more about it on this website in German, or on Jim Edmonson’s website. A test version of their website can be found here.

If you want to keep an eye on what goes on in history of (recent) biomedicine in Germany — and in German history of science, technology and medicine generally — the on-line directory of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik is the place to look, see http://www.dggmnt.de/umfrage/index.html. (thanks to Sybilla […]

One of my friends asked if the blog is dead because of zero activity between 5 and 17 April. No, it’s not dead, it’s just been hibernating. Danish Academia usually closes down completey for about 10 days in the Easter holidays, and so did our research group. But we’ll be back! Next Wednesday we are […]

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

… talking about biological citizenship etc – this has just arrived in my mailbox: Call for papers: Embodiment and the State Middelfart, Denmark, October 27-28, 2006 Keynote speakers: Margaret Lock, McGill University – Allan Young, McGill University – Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics – Berardino Palumbo, University of Messina – Sarah Nettleton, University of […]

Speaking about possible social, cultural and political contexts of recent biomedicine and biotech — Slavoj Zizek has again provided some analytical ammunition!

Here’s the manuscript to my talk at Residència d’Investigadors in Barcelona Thursday 30 March. It’s a modified version of an article that’s being published in a special issue about university museums in Opuscula Musealia later this year. There are no notes in this blog version. If you prefer a Catalan version (!), you can get […]

Jeg besøgte det medicinhistoriske museum i Barcelona i onsdags. Det er et fondsejet museum der er tilknyttet det kirurgiske selskab, et hyggeligt lille sted, der har til huse i en flot 1800-talsvilla … … på en sidegade i Eixemple-kvarteret. Huset er skønt, med mange smukke indretningsdetaljer …

Her er et manuskript til et temanummer om naturvidenskabelig kanon til tidskriften BioZoom, vol. 9, nr 1, april 2006. Synspunkter modtages gerne: min dead-line er lørdag den 25. marts(25. marts: er sendt ind med nogle mindre rettelser, tak Sniff!): Se publiceret version …

Historikere ved Princeton University har i arkiverne fundet det endelige bevis på at allerede Einstein var en stærk tilhænger af Museion-konceptet:

Marta de Menezes, Nuclear Family (2004) (a rendition of gene array analysis, see more of Marta de Menesez’ work here) And here’s a short resumé of ‘The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices’ workshop at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University last Wednesday, a meeting which focused on gene arrays as scientific, museum and […]

The array and variety of visualizations in postgenomics are seemingly unlimited. Here’s a subset of Marc Vidal’s research group’s preliminary map of the human interactome, originally published in Nature, vol. 437, pp. 1173-78 (2005).