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Don’t  forget our MUSE workshop tomorrow. Over lunch we will attack the topic of hunger/appetite/satiation with a range of methodological tools: An anthropological approach (Line Hillersdal and Bodil Just Christensen, PhD candidates, Institute for Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen) A museological/curatorial approach (Bente Vinge Pedersen and Niels Vilstrup Møller, senior curators, Medical Museion, University […]

Just to remind you all that Hannah Landecker will give a seminar titled “From the Body as Factory to Eating Information: A Short History of Metabolism” in our MUSE seminar series on next Friday, June 1, at 3 pm. Hannah Landecker (associate professor of sociology at UCLA) is the author of the award-winning book Culturing Life: How […]

The short film from our recent event Look Again…, in which we invited guests to investigate some of the overlooked aspects of medicine with their pen, lens, and hands, is now finished. I had a great time working with Deniz Inceer who shot and edited the piece, which winds through many spaces of the museum and […]

Anette, Louise and myself are giving papers at a shared session at the upcoming Danish Association of Science and Technology Studies (DASTS) conference (conference website and full program here), with Thomas as convener and Karin as commentator. The session is Thursday the 31st at 10.30-12.00. We are very much looking forward to it and hope […]

I spent three very enjoyable days in Paris last week, giving several lectures on the history of medicine to 25 general practitioners and visiting medical collections with them. The course is offered through the Danish Medical Association and is a great chance to delve deep into the material culture of medical history. One of the […]

Næste torsdag, den 24. maj, inviterer vi til endnu en aftenkonsultation i Medicinsk Museions arrangementsrække Krop | Medicin | Ting – nærkontakt af den materielle slags … Genomforskning er big business! Men hvad er det en gentest kan fortælle? Og hvordan laver man den egentlig? Hvilket grej behøver man? Er det svært? Kan man lave den […]

Last time I presented a paper criticising contextualist thinking was at the annual History of Science conference in Washington DC in November 2007 — that’s almost five years ago! I haven’t had much time over to think about the individualism/contextualism/holism issue. This museum, and a couple of kids, have taken all my time. But a […]

I fredags var Thomas og jeg på besøg hos en af vores “våde” kolleger på Metabolismecenteret, Rasmus. Vi skulle afhente omkring 650 genchips, som er blevet anvendt til at karakterisere omkring 175.000 genetiske variationer hos tusindvis af danskere. Vi fik fik under besøget også mulighed for at kigge nærmere på laboratoriet og hvordan arbejdet med så […]

How do you explain why social media can be a good thing for researchers to look into? What advantages and what challenges are important to highlight? This week, I’ll be introducing social media for science communication to the Danish Public Health Sciences Alumni (in Danish). It always helps being quite convinced yourself of what you […]

Have you ever walked into a museum and photographed the shadowy corner of the room rather than the glass case in the middle? Have you ever stopped to look at the seemingly boring medical stuff that surrounds us – from dentures to rollators? And how often do you think about the fragility of the bones […]

Today we had our weekly MUSE workshop with in-house historian of psychiatry, Jesper V. Kragh, who spoke — under the title “Changing Gender Differences: Morphine in Denmark, 1860-1960” — about the gender dimension in his current research project on the history of drug abuse in Denmark. The discussion generated a lot of discussions — and a lively Twitter-stream, including some thoughts […]

Programmet til vores gentest-arrangement er nu på plads og gæsterne er bekræftede. Vi har ændret lidt i beskrivelsen for at understrege, at der bliver tale om en interaktiv oplevelse og ikke bare en forelæsning. Se herunder hvad du kan forvente dig af herligheder: Kom bag scenen til en gentest! Hvordan foregår den? Hvad viser den […]