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‘Mediated Bodies’, International conference, 14-16 September 2006, Faculty of Arts and Culture, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Our session proposal “Scientific Visualisations in Disturbance” for the above conference has been accepted. Here are the abstracts. Session organisers: Susanne Bauer, Christine Hanke, Jan Eric Olsén

Just a spontaneous spin-off thought inspired by Susanne‘s project on the visualization of epidemiology — I fell across the Information Aesthetics blog with the subtitle “form follows data – towards creative information visualization”. I like the range of creative possibilities, e.g. this pic: “an interactive photo mosaic of a graphical icon or logo made up […]

A new series of Witness Seminars have been announced for the spring of 2006. The History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, headed by Tilli Tansey, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in London, are arranging the following four seminars between March and July: – March 16: The Early Development of […]

How do members of the public perceive biomedicine and biomedical scientists? What kind of experiences may lie behind these perceptions? And how do they change? These are crucial questions to be asked by any medical history museum that has the intention, somehow, to contribute to the public understanding of medicine. So far the answer is: […]

Greetings from Rachel Mayeri:

If you happen to be in Barcelona on the 30th of March, why don’t you come and listen to my talk “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” at Sala de conferències de la Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC / Generalitat de Catalunya), carrer de l’Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona, at 7pm. Organizers: Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC – Generalitat […]

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

Programmet er opdateret og kan nu læses her

Workshop “The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices”, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 2:00-5:00pm, Lancaster University, IAS Meeting Room 2-3 This workshop will focus on some of the material artefacts associated with the contemporary development of the life sciences, as well as the forms of work associated with them, especially as these artefacts move across institutional […]

The postgenomic.com blog is a brand new addition to the growing number of meta-blog tools — like technorati, but specializing in biomedicine and the life sciences. The blog aggregates posts from (presently some 100) life science and biomedicine blogs and uses data from these blogs to do several things.