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Rollator drawings, 30th September – 4th October 2010: Continuing my appreciation of the aesthetics of seemingly ugly and mundane artefacts we associate with ageing, I investigated a second rollator. This was a contemporary model. It had a clear plastic tray, a wire shopping basket and four wheels rather than three for extra stability. It was […]

Vores nye udstilling på Panum Instituttet “The Chemistry of Life” fortæller fire kapitler af stofskifteforskningens historie fra det tidlige 1600-tal til i dag. På udstillingen udfoldes fortiden gennem genstande og billeder, men hvis nogen har lyst til at få en mundtlig udgave, kan jeg varmt anbefale at lytte til P1’s historiemagasin “Alletiders historie”. Her fortæller udstillingens […]

Rollator drawings  27th–28th, 28th–29th September 2010: When I began drawing the rollator I asked myself why I was drawing something that was so boring, so ugly with no interesting features. I was reminded of the talk Nurin Veis, Deputy Head Sciences – Science Communication and Senior Curator of Human Biology and Medicine at Museum Victoria, […]

Hermed en lille billedkavalkade fra åbningsfesten for udstillingen “The Chemistry of Life”. Inden udstillingen blev afsløret var den pakket forsvarligt ind i metervis af brun afdækningspapir. Kun David Goodsell’s “Insulin Action”, der pryder vinduespartiet, var ikke dækket, men fik lov at være en lille smagsprøve. Inden papireret blev revet af montrerne, overværede en godt fyldt Dam auditorium taler […]

I eftermiddag kl.15 åbner vi vores nye udstilling The Chemistry of Life om stofskifteforskningens historie fra 1600-tallet til i dag. Det kommer til at foregår i Panumbygningen på Blegdamsvej med taler, reception — og en lille overraskelse. Efter udstillingens fjerde og sidste kapitel om nutidens stofskifteforskning vil der nemlig ikke blive sat et fedt punktum, […]

On Thursday 2 December, a new Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen is inaugurated with talks by Sarah Franklin and Ken Arnold. Sarah Franklin will speak about “Life After the In Vitro Fertilisation: Biology Has Become a Technology?”. Sarah Franklin is well-known for his studies of in vitro fertilisation, cloning, embryo research and […]

Torsdag den 2. december, kl. 15:00 er alle interesserede velkommen til åbningen af det nydannede Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies. Det foregår i auditoret på Medicinsk Museion, Bredgade 62. Først taler Sarah Franklin om “Life After In Vitro Fertilisation: Has Biology Become a Technology?”. Sarah Franklin er en af verdens førende forskere inden […]

Jeg har lige sendt penge til Wikipedia igen her i november. Den her gang fik de 5% af min månedsløn, hvilket gjorde lidt ondt lige da jeg klikkede på ‘betal’, men som jeg alligevel ikke kan lade være med. Jeg ved flere som heller ikke kan lade være, og jeg synes endnu flere skulle gøre det. Fordi […]

When a new museum is established, it is formed both by ideas of what the role of the medical history museum in society is, and by the context out of which that specific museum comes. The challenge of building new museums was approached from three very different angles at the Copenhagen conference in September. Kerstin […]

Historisk Samfund får på mandag den 15. november besøg af ph.d. stipendiat ved University of Cambridge Signe Nipper Nielsen, der under overskriften: At indsamle naturen: Det forunderlige og singulære i anatomen Thomas Bartholins studier af fødselsprodukter, vil tale om sit projekt. Samfundet præsenterer arrangementet således: En ged, der føder et menneske, en pige, hvis far er en hund, to […]

One of the sessions at the September conference dealt with the problems and challenges in collecting contemporary medicine. [biomed]yIq60pnz1pE[/biomed] Judy M. Chelnick presented the challenges of collecting today as being mainly lack of space, and the difficulty in trying to guess what objects will be historically valuable to your collections in the future. Read Judy’s […]

Many of the most essential things in recent biomedicine are too small or too fast for the naked eye to see. At the session The biomedical invisibles, at the conference in September, Henrik Treimo and Victoria Höög addressed the issue of how to represent such invisibles. How can we make objects, which escape an immediate […]