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Good news for scholars interested in biomedicine and society — the first issue of the new journal BioSocieties, “an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences, genomics and neuroscience” is announced to appear in March 2006.

Last Friday, the 10th of February, I and some other forty curious spectators, gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to witness the artist Phillip Warnell swallow a pill camera and discuss the view of his belly with consultant gastroenterologist Dr. Simon Anderson. The event took place between 3.00pm and 8.00pm, which was approximately […]

Jens Lohferts forelæsning om “Litteratur og medicin” ved det eksterne Museion-seminar d. 7. februar blev optaget af StudenterTV. Forelæsningen sendes på Kanal København mandag d. 6. marts kl. 11.30 til 12.30.

I thought museums were dwelling in the outer territories of the blogosphere — but mistaken I was. Günther Waibel, who is a contributor to the RLG staff blog hangingtogether (thanks to Constance Malpas, RLG Member Services in New York for drawing my attention to it), has a post about museum blogs where he points out […]

Tim Boon, Science Museum, is organizing a session on “Science and documentaries” at the 2006 Film and History League Conference (“The Documentary Tradition”), November 8-12, 2006, www.filmandhistory.org. Here’s his call for papers:

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

This call for papers has just arrived from BIOS, LSE: The BIOS Centre is organizing an international conference on 7-9 September 2006 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The aims of the conference are to provide a comparative and global perspective on present forms of practice in the life sciences. The Organizing […]

The LabLit.com-website is a “labor of love” website/netzine edited by Jennifer Rohn, who has worked for 15 years in virology, cell biology, cancer research and gene therapy and has, as she says “an incurable addiction to science-related literature”. The site is “dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture […]

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge has launched a new internetbased teaching aid for school children, called Gallery Challnge. See http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/gallerychallenge. They invite to a reception on Tuesday 14th February, 1-3pm, in the Whipple Museum Main Gallery, Department of HPS, Free School Lane, Cambridge.

TALKING EMBRYOS: Interdisciplinary conversations exploring the social roles of the embryo. A one-day conference, 9.30am – 5.30pm, Friday 5th May, 2006, King’s College, Cambridge. Held with support from CRASSH (Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge). This conference brings together leading academics from a variety of disciplines to discuss contemporary […]

Sage Ross, a graduate student and blogger at Yale University’s Program in History of Medicine and Science, has distributed the interesting message below through the H-Sci-Med-Tech-list. Sage’s point is that historians of science (and medicine) would get much out of engaging more with Wikipedia, and that writing Wikipedia-entries could also be used as a teaching […]

In a post from 6 December I marvelled at the fact that there were about 22,4 million blogs registered by the Technorati search machine. Today, two months later, there are 27,1 million blogs, i.e., an increase of more than 75.000 blogs every day! Read more here.