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One of the key issues in the Health/Medicine 2.0 movement is who has control over medical knowledge and information. Raw data produced in hospital laboratories have by tradition been unavailable to patients. But one would expect that data produced by implanted medical devices should be accessible for the person who carries them. Not necessarily so. A case in point is an American patient, […]

ScienceRoll has its fifth birthday today. Summarizing his experience of 2427 posts, 10,699 comments and over 2,2 million visitors, it’s founder and only contributor Bertalan Meskó writes: Blogging became a part of my everyday routine and now plays a major role in my professional life. I launched it in 2006 as a medical student and now I write the […]

Og nu da vi er ved Sydsvenska Medicinhistoriska Sällskapet på den anden side af Øresundsbroen — det er nok ikke mange som ved at de har et billedarkiv med ca. 5000 billeder, hvoraf ca. 1/3 er søgbare pt: personbilleder, gruppebilleder, interiører, billeder af instrumenter, etc.

Medicinsk Museion har et midlertidigt stop for udlån af museumsgenstande og andre materialer på grund af følgerne af vandskaden d. 2. juli, men det et stadig muligt at se eksempler fra museets samlinger udenfor vores egne udstillinger. En fint forarbejdet fodprotese til et barn kan ses i udstillingen Phantom Limbs på Designmuseum Danmark der åbner […]

Where in the world can a historian of science get a job, which is designed to provide scholars of the first rank with the freedom and resources to pursue an innovative and ambitious research program, which includes the possibility of hiring researchers and offering pre- and postdoctoral fellowships as well as inviting visiting scholars. The […]

– fra undervisningsmodel til museumsgenstand. Fra jordemoderuddannelsen på Professionshøjskolen Metropol, har Medicinsk Museion i foråret 2011 modtaget en ældre undervisningsmodel bestående af et kvindebækken udstyret med et kugleled af metal, monteret på en træplade. Kugleleddet gør det muligt at vippe bækkenet fra stående til liggende position. Endvidere er der et spædbarnskranium, der er fastgjort til en […]

I Lund er man ved at bygge et nyt museum om menneskets krop — “den växande, läkande, åldrande, historiska, fascinerande, levande kroppen!” Livets Museum er ved at indrettes i en nyrenoveret, 140 meter lang og tre meter bred, ovenjordisk kulvert fra 1912 på hospitalsområdet. Det er Sydsvenska Medicinhistoriska Sällskapet og Region Skåne, der er gået sammen om […]

I’ve just watched, with great fascination, a series of short movies produced at the Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica in Firenze to illustrate classical physics experiments with original 19th century apparatus. Like this one: (There are many others here.) Let me say first — I do not, by any means, doubt the serious intentions behind this series of didactical movies. They are produced by Paolo […]

I går “fejrede” International Diabetes Federation den årlige “Verdens Diabetes Dag“. Det er en global kampagne som skal sætte fokus på diabetes og den trussel som sygdommen er. Kampagnen understøttedes af fem hovedbudskab: Diabetes kills: 1 person every 8 seconds, 4 million people a year Diabetes does not discriminate: all ages, rich and poor, all countries […]

Many of us here at Medical Museion are fascinated by containers, boxes, flasks etc. in biomedicine — all those kinds of packages that are used for keeping and transporting body parts, cell cultures, chemicals, biobank samples (like the 23andMe box), etc. Such containers are part of the vital infrastructure of both scientific and clinical practice, but […]

On the 11.11.11 from 12-13 (CET) a Swedish initiated pilot tweet chat will take off. It is part of the #hcsm discussions on Health Care and Social Media. #hcsmse is now a Swedish addition to the family – or at least a trial to see if there is interest in a discussion in Swedish on […]

Is Danish research being spread effectively enough to the world? Do researchers in the US, India and Australia know of the findings researcher in Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Denmark are making? If not, a new online initiative called ScienceNordic is hoping to change that – or at least add an additional and lighter component […]