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Kan man bruge virus til at bekæmpe virus? Ja, siger forskere fra California Institute of Technology i Pasadena, der i en Nature-artikel netop i dag – dagen før World AIDS Day –  har offentliggjort, hvordan de ved hjælp af en harmløs virus har gjort mus resistente over for HIV-infektion. Der er tale om en alternativ strategi […]

What role can science communication units and sci-tech-med museums play in the emerging biosociety? The forthcoming conference ‘Towards a sustainable bio-based society: aligning scientific and societal agendas for bio-innovation’ in Amsterdam 9-11 May 2012, might provide some food for thought. Organised by the CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences, the three-day meeting will bring together academics, policy experts and […]

I søndags skrev jeg om de verdensunikke og truede samlinger af embryologiske præparater ved Tornbladsinstitutet i Lund. Det var en appetizer til dagens post … … som handler om en workshop som Institutionen för Konsthistoria och Visuella Studier ved Lunds Universitet arrangerer den 26. -27. januar 2012 med Tornblad-samlingerne i fokus: Första dagen kommer att ha mer av ett medicinhistoriskt […]

My online-public-health-discussion-facilitator-legs have now taken their first steps – and I survived it and would even call it succesful. It is definitely not a discussion that will stand out in history, but it was useful for me and I believe a good introduction of the potential of using social media at seminars, to the people […]

Why write about the life and work of contemporary biomedical and life scientists? What is the use of the genre of biography for understanding contemporary biomedicine? Is it just history by other means, or does biography writing have other uses as well? In an article titled “The Seven Sisters: Subgenres of Bioi of Contemporary Life […]

Organisatorisk set er der ikke meget tilbage af Tornbladsinstitutet (tidligere også kendt som Embryologiska Institutionen) ved Lunds Universitet. Instituttet blev dannet i 1931 ved en privat donation og den nuværende forstander gik i pension for mere en ti år siden. Universitetet vil gerne bruge den smukke bygning til andet. Det er bare et problem — den […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to contribute to a workshop on interdisciplinarity and ageing research, organised by Lene Otto and the humanities section of the Center for Healthy Aging here in Copenhagen on Wednesday 14 December. Why interdisciplinarity? Well, the Center is pretty big — about 150 biomedical scientists, epidemiologists, health service researchers, ethnologists, etc., plus a few communication […]

Morbid obesity. Sygelig fedme. Hvis du har en BMI på over 40 kg/m2, kan din tilstand betegnes således. For mit vedkommende skulle jeg op at veje over 130 kg for at komme i denne kategori. Men er fedme en sygdom? Og hvis det er tilfældet, er det så bare et spørgsmål om vægt? Hvis man […]

How many of your colleagues are on Twitter? If you are a scholar it would be around 1 in 40 – that is at least the conclusion made by Jason Priem, an investigator of new measures of scholarly impact on the social Web from University of North Carolina. Some of the conclusion from his research […]

So, on Friday I will for the first time be trying out my online-public-health-discussion-facilitator-legs. I have never tried this before and must admit that I am still a little bit in the dark on how to go about it. I have a few times in real life and in informal manors facilitated discussions, but I […]

Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab uddeler hvert år en pris til årets studenteropgave med medicinhistorisk indhold. Prisen uddeles til februar, men hvis nogen kender til eller har skrevet en god opgave, er det nu, de skal melde sig. Yderligere oplysninger og regler for deltagelse i konkurrencen kan ses på selskabets hjemmeside.

The Nordic Network for Studies in Narrativity and Medicine (which I have reported about before in our Danish blog) is holding its first meeting at Medical Museion, Friday 9 – Saturday 10 December. Here’s the list of speakers (in chronological order): Thomas Söderqvist: Are There Any Narratives in These Exhibitions? Rita Charon: What is Medicine For? […]