new books, articles etc

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The LabLit.com-website is a “labor of love” website/netzine edited by Jennifer Rohn, who has worked for 15 years in virology, cell biology, cancer research and gene therapy and has, as she says “an incurable addiction to science-related literature”. The site is “dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture […]

I mine desperate forsøg på at være først med noget som helst her på bloggen (eller bare at være på bloggen) er ingen nyhed for lille eller triviel.

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

(Oplægget blev oprindeligt skrevet den 21. nov, men pga de mange kommentarer er det opdateret til den 6. dec) Hører biobanker — og især det materiale som er i dem — til Medicinsk Museions aktivitetsområde?

Take a look at Genomics, Society and Policy — a new peer reviewed online journal initiated by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) in Lancaster/Cardiff. The aim is to provide an outlet for interdisciplinary research on the social, ethical and legal aspects of genomics and related […]

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Call for Papers: Special issue on the history and aesthetics of visual images and visualization (for Journal of the History of the Neurosciences): Physical images and cognitive visualization offer two frames of reference for thinking about the history and development of neuroscience. The images of neurological illustration, for example, constitute a sourcebook on early medical […]

The term ‘biomedicine’ is (surprise, surprise) central to this project. But it is somewhat ambiguous, as Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating pointed out in their historical review of the term in Chapter 3 of Biomedical Platforms (2003). Viviane Quirke’s recent report from the symposium ‘The era of biomedicine: science, technology and health in France and […]

Michael Sargent, Biomedicine and the Human Condition: Challenges, Risks and Rewards er lige udkommet på Cambridge University Press. Ifølge forlagets egen omtale, uddrag af anmeldelser og indholdsfortegnelse er det tale om et godt og velskrevet overblik over biomedicinens udvikling og status (dvs. en slags “popular understanding of biomedicine”-bog)

Anncristin Winroth (Umeå) har lige gjort mig opmærksom på et temanumer af Samtid & Museer (nr 1-2/2004) på temaet “Hälsa” (helse) med en række korte artikler. Fx.