Medicinhistorie

On Sunday July 3rd at 7pm, Medical Museion will be hosting a tour through the Scandinavian history of neuroscience, organised by the FENS History of Neuroscience Committee as part of the FENS 2016 conference. Speakers include Albert Gjedde, Hans Hultborn and Troels Kardel (University of Copenhagen); Richard Brown (Dalhousie University), Lorenzo Lorusso (Chiari), and Zoltán Molnár (University of Oxford). The talks […]

And although the biohacking lab has gone we want to keep in mind the lessons with regard to the importance of craft and openness in science. Here’re some words from the opening on togas, lab coats and open science in the academy:

Many of the objects held by museums of science and medicine are significant because they have been used in the production of knowledge and scientific enquiry. This blog post discusses how we might display such objects in ways that draw on their potential to generate scientific knowledge as well as their cultural history and materiality. […]

On May 21st, I will defend my PhD dissertation in the nice old auditorium at Medical Museion. The title of the dissertation is “Unsettling successful ageing: A history and queering of the concept of successful ageing in ageing research”, and the event lasts from 1 PM (sharp!) to 4 PM, followed by a small reception. […]

This post was originally published on the official blog of the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester 22-28 July, as an appetiser for the paper “Understanding social media in STEM museums: the lessons from establishing a bio-hacking laboratory” that I co-authored with Karin Tybjerg and which Karin presented in the […]

The Waag Society, Amsterdam, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, and University of Amsterdam, have released a call for applications for a 10 month project exploring the use of Bio-Art as a science communication strategy, potentially leading to a PhD project. The relation between art-science and strategies for public engagement raises some fascinating and underexplored questions about how […]

Among the treasures of Medical Museion in Copenhagen are rare books such as the first edition by Anutius Foesius of the collected works of Hippocrates, presented as one volume with eight sections.

A couple of months ago we closed our psychiatry gallery on the 2nd floor in the museum’s Academy Building. Instead we have created a smaller room — a hybrid between exhibition, open collection, and study room/inspiration venue on the ground floor — which we call The Psychiatry Room The planning for The Psychiatry Room began […]

One of the things I’ve learned from the history of science during my academic career is that the historicist critique of presentism — that is, the critique that says that historical actors and events shall be interpreted in terms of their own time horizon and not from the vantage point of the present — is […]

Steven Lubar — director of the public humanities programme at Brown University and keen observer of things museological — has just drawn his Twitter followers’ attention to a “nice” blog post on the problems of collecting contemporary artefacts written by National Museum of American History curator Carlene Stephens. Stephens’ blog post revolves around Stanley (a driver-less vehicle that won a historic […]

Just to remind you all that Hannah Landecker will give a seminar titled “From the Body as Factory to Eating Information: A Short History of Metabolism” in our MUSE seminar series on next Friday, June 1, at 3 pm. Hannah Landecker (associate professor of sociology at UCLA) is the author of the award-winning book Culturing Life: How […]

I spent three very enjoyable days in Paris last week, giving several lectures on the history of medicine to 25 general practitioners and visiting medical collections with them. The course is offered through the Danish Medical Association and is a great chance to delve deep into the material culture of medical history. One of the […]