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Ved Medicinsk Museions sommerfest i går blev vores nye kæmpekøleskab indviet med stil. Den store, hvide boks i kælderen var nøje indstillet til fem grader celsius og efter en kort, faglig introduktion blev indholdet; tre kasser kølige pilsnere, afsløret under stor jubel.                                    Køleskabet skal fremover huse syntetiske og fotografiske genstande, der enten er for […]

Monday morning when the conservator arrived at the Medical Museion, and went down to the basement to continue her work on some damaged bones from the collection, she found herself standing in water up to her ankles. Like in many other parts of Zealand the heavy rains on Saturday had unexpected and unpleasant consequences for […]

In October, I’m participating in ‘an interdisciplinary workshop for young scholars‘ at the University of Lübeck, organized by the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck, in cooperation with the Institut für Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft in Berlin. The workshop title is “Good life better – anthropological, sociological […]

Mandag morgen ankom konservatoren til Medicinsk Museions bagbygning, og satte som sædvanlig kurs mod kælderen for at fortsætte sit arbejde med rensning af nogle af samlingens gamle knogler, der havde fået lettere skader. Hun gik et par trin ned i mørket, og stod i vand til anklerne.  Ligesom så mange andre steder på Sjælland havde […]

Engaging with objects is key to understanding knowledge production, but you wouldn’t necessarily get that impression from a lot of philosophy, cultural theory or sociology. More often that not, objects are either flatout ignored (as Bjørnar Olsen and others have argued) or seen as secondary by-products of immaterial knowledge structures. This dismissive view on objects […]

Here’s the list of speakers at the 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences, to be held at Medical Museion, 16-18 September 2010, on the theme ‘Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums´. THURSDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER Thomas Söderqvist: Why this conference now? Kim Sawchuk: Biotourism […]

Writing on a blog about the benefits of blogging might seem a bit superfluous, but here is a nice reminder of the possibilities that the social web can open. The philosopher Levi Bryant, one of the central figures in Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), recently wrote this blogpost on chance encounters and why blogging can be a […]

Immanuel Kant didn’t like metaphorical thinking in science — and his rebuke of this ambiguous way of investigating the natural world is one of the pillars for the modern separation of art and science. However, in a statement article published yesterday in an issue about art and science in the German journal Gegenworte  (#23, 2010), […]

Som tidligere annonceret her på bloggen holder jeg sammen med min specialemakker Marie-Louise Holm et oplæg om vores speciale, arrangeret af Historisk Samfund, Københavns Universitet. Specialet omhandler bl.a. retsmediciner og seksualbiolog Knud Sands forskning fra 1920’erne, som Museion p.t. udstiller et par genstande fra i særudstillingen 6 Ting og sager – men vi kommer også […]

Christoph Gradmann and Flurin Condrau of the ESF network Drug Standards, Standard Drugs are planning a workshop on the theme ‘Beyond the Magic Bullet: Reframing the History of Antibiotics’, to take place in Oslo, 17-19 March 2011. Antibiotics have been celebrated as a medical success story around the globe from their first distribution at the […]

I’m often thinking about how my presence on social web media platforms — mainly blogging and some occasional twittering — enhances or weakens my other scholarly activities, like writing books and papers for traditional history of science journals. Personally, I believe writing on social web media is a significant source of inspiration for more traditional scholarly writing. Or […]

The RSA – the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce – have a wonderful series of animated lectures which are worth checking out. One of them is based on the American writer Daniel Pink’s work on motivation. [biomed]u6XAPnuFjJc[/biomed] The video seems to me to raise a fundamental issue in science communication, […]