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The 16th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Berlin, 13-15 September 2012 on the theme “Hidden Stories: What do medical objects tell and how can we make them speak?”. Here’s the call for papers from Thomas Schnalke, director of the Berliner Medizinhistorisches […]

It’s notoriously difficult to display invisibles in medical exhibitions. And what’s more invisible than pain? When you break a leg, the lesion is visible, but the pain is not. A mostly subjective sensation, chronic pain has few, if any, visible physical correlates. How do you display headache? I came to think about this when I heard […]

Eventually, the final program for the annual Artefacts meeting (this year in Leiden), has just been sent out. Three of us here at Medical Museion (Louise Whiteley, Niels Vilstrup and myself) are going — here are Louise’s and my abstracts: Louise Whiteley: Preserving the material culture of functional neuroimaging: Objects of process Functional neuroimaging research […]

Forleden omkring frokostbordet snakkede vi lidt om syntetisk biologi og om hvad det nu lige var. Jeg faldt i går over et interessant eksempel, jeg lige vil nævne. E. coli bakterier var årsag til at københavnere i sidste uge var tvunget til koge vandet. Nu har forskere på Nanyang Technological University i Singapore omprogrammeret selvsamme bakterie […]

Science Online London 2011 will surely not be able to give the answer to how the web is changing science. For that there are too many answers. But I do look very much forward to joining others in London 2. and 3. September to listen to different perspectives of what role the communicative possibilities web2.0 […]

[flickr id=”6096092324″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”large” group=”” align=”left”]Forleden spyttede jeg i et plastikrør i fem minutter. Hvorfor? For at blive klogere! En del firmaer især i USA er i de seneste år begyndt at tilbyde forskellige gentests til private kunder. Et af disse firmaer er 23andme (tidligere omtalt flere gange på vores engelsksprogede blog, Biomedicine on […]

Here’s my abstract for a panel on the role of the humanities in science communication that Joan Leach in the Science Communication programme, U Queensland, is putting together for the PCST-12 meeting in Florence next spring: Mundane Design vs. Fine Sci-Art: Two Realms of Aesthetic Practice in Science Communication Sci-art has become an increasingly important dimension of […]

Niccolò Leoniceno (1428-1524) kaldes den første humanist blandt lægerne. Han påbegyndte nemlig en filologisk gennemgang af de tekster som lægekunsten byggede på.

There’s been quite a lot of noise about European university museums in the last couple of years. A lot of people are thinking about why and how the academic heritage should be collected, preserved and exhibited (to the right is one of the, our own Medical Museion in Copenhagen). Now the University of Tartu History Museum […]

The battle for the Danish voters has begun. On 15th September elections for the Danish Parliament takes place. Politicians, political experts, aggressive journalists etc. are therefore all over the place. Yesterday, I watched a little bit of the debate between the political party leaders on the nationwide TV station TV2. In addition to the politicians’ […]

Great initiative! Elena Corradini at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and Marek Bukowski at the Museum of the Medical University of Gdansk (Poland) are proposing a European Anatomical Collections Network. Elena and Marek’s idea is to launch a joint European program for the preservation, handling, and availability of anatomical collection based on […]

As part of the Institute of Public Health at University of Copenhagen I received today in my inbox an electronic copy of the institute’s monthly newsletter. The 16 pages long newsletter is sent as a pdf file and gives an overview of what has happened at the institute since the last newsletter. There are one-page […]