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Lige siden coronaepidemiens første nedlukning har Medicinsk Museion indsamlet genstande til vores medicinhistoriske samlinger – det begyndte med Magnus Heunickes skilt med den grønne og den røde kurve, og siden er blandt andet testudstyr, vacciner og Philip Fabers morgenssangsnoder kommet til.

In my new book “Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge”, I suggest that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. If you are interested in the intersection of art and science, this book might be for you.

Medicinsk Museion vinder Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits for onlineudstillingen: Life Support. Prisen tildeles 20. november 2021.

What does time mean to you? Is it the ticking of a clock? The rhythm of a dance? The oscillation of a cell?

On July 15th, I had the pleasure of presenting a talk entitled INHABITING THE CONCEPT OF HOLOBIONT: THINKING THROUGH VISUAL IMAGERY at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology’s first online conference.

On March 4th – 6th 2021, the international conference Chronic Living: Quality, vitality and health in the 21st century took place.

On June 23th 2021, I (Joana Formosinho) had the pleasure of giving a talk at Aarhus University’s Center for Environmental Humanities. The talk was based on my research of how the rise to prominence of microbes within biology and biomedicine, as agents in human health, as co-evolving partners in the making of bodies, is disrupting established notions of biological individuality.

Fermentation for cooking and preservation has old roots and can be found in most food cultures around the world. For a long time, people have chosen what to eat in order to maintain and strengthen a healthy gut. This seems to be a rising trend, with some using diet as a tool for managing a health issue or diagnosis, and an increasing interest in the gut microbiome. 

Medicinsk Museion har med glæde modtaget en bevilling på kr. 711.291.- fra Cand. Pharm Povl M. Assens Fond til at overtage instrumenter, diagnoseudstyr, billeder m.m. fra Holstebro Sygehus.

Text as technology for care and understanding is an upcoming PhD course, asking what ‘text’ is, and how and when ‘text’ matters in practices of education, medicine, care, hybrid art, exhibitions and research. To explore these questions and their implications, we bring together interdisciplinary perspectives to problematize text as technology. The PhD course takes place […]