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I’m participating with a paper titled “The material life-course of a scientist” at workshop ‘The Return of Biography: Reassessing Life Stories in Science Studies’ to be held at Science Museum, London, on 18 July. There are many things I would like to take issue with in this call for papers: Isn’t the notion of ‘return’ of […]

At the It’s Not What You Think-workshop this March we experimented with a number of changes to the traditional format of academic meetings. One of the key things we knew we wanted with the workshop was to bring together a properly interdisciplinary group of people –not just scholars from different academic disciplines, but also artists […]

When I moved to Bonn, Germany six months ago it was with great ambitions of exploring the German (Public Health) science communication community. Somehow time flew by and different job opportunities, unexpected travels, practicalities and even sickness kept me from getting started on my exploring. But last week, into my inbox dropped an email with […]

Are you reading this via our RSS feed? Then according to our feed statistics there’s a 70% chance you’re using Google Reader. And if you hadn’t noticed the warning when logging in, here’s a friendly reminder: That’s right. After 1 July 2013 there will be no more Google Reader. So for the ~300 of you […]

Medicinsk Museion har netop fået installeret et nyt stinkskab, efter lange og grundige forberedelser. Stinkskabet er et rum med beskyttelsesglas og kraftigt udsugning, hvor der kan arbejdes med farlige stoffer uden fare for den der udfører arbejdet.

Det er nu over halvandet år siden, at vi lancerede vores nye hjemmeside. Med andre ord kan man vel dårligt stadig kalde den ny. Men alligevel føles den stadig hele tiden lidt ny, fordi vi bliver ved med at arbejde videre på den. Indholdet på forsiden er jo præget af hvad der sker på museet, […]

It’s been more than a year and a half since we launched our new website. In other words, it’s hardly new anymore. However, it still does feel new because we keep working on it and updating it all the time. The frontpage contents are a reflection of what goes on in our museum and what […]

Nogle af de bedste udøvere af lægekunst i 1500-tallet var Johanniterordenen som fra 1530 havde hovedsæde på Malta midt i Middelhavet. De mest almindelige behandlinger illustreres glimrende med modeller i “Sacra Infermeria” (det hellige hospital, nu brugt til middelhavskonferencer, men med museum i kælderen).

As the It’s Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities workshop in March, we experimented with different formats – from quick-fire intro presentations to break the interdisciplinary ice, to a hands-on object investigation session. In the object session (video here), participants were sorted into four groups, and entered an empty exhibition room to find one table per group, […]

Back to the real world after two weeks in amazing Japan and an unplanned setback due to a rather bad infection leading to a stay in hospital, I revisited a link in my Twitter profile to a recently published article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. It didn’t take more than reading the title to […]

Among the treasures of Medical Museion in Copenhagen are rare books such as the first edition by Anutius Foesius of the collected works of Hippocrates, presented as one volume with eight sections.

A couple of months ago we closed our psychiatry gallery on the 2nd floor in the museum’s Academy Building. Instead we have created a smaller room — a hybrid between exhibition, open collection, and study room/inspiration venue on the ground floor — which we call The Psychiatry Room The planning for The Psychiatry Room began […]