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It interesting to follow different attempts to create virtual medical history archives and exhibitions on the web, even if they don’t focus on recent biomedicine/biotechnology. One can alway learn something new; in this case — which many of you probably already know of — the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science’s (Berlin) on-line project, The […]

Klaus Høyer, adjunkt ved Afdeling for Sundhedstjenesteforskning. “Etik som reguleringsform – nye perspektiver på magt og moral” Fredag 25. november, kl. 14.00 – 16.00.

Seminar: Access and audiences: Reaching out with medical and healthcare collections Tuesday 18 October April 2005, 4.30 – 6.30 pm Thackray Museum, Leeds http://www.thackraymuseum.org Speakers: Rachel Bairsto, British Dental Association; Dawn Kemp, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh; Fiona Elliott, Thackray Museum. Commentator: Emm Barnes, University of Manchester, Centre for HSTM

The patient is a central category of recent (bio)medicine — this symposium focuses on the fragile patient, the patient as an object of biomedical science and industrialized care: The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, October 18 & 19, 2006 Precariously situated between home and hospital, work and bed, life and death, the patient occupies a […]

“Genomics no longer casts genes as the blueprint that determines traits of humans, animals or plants. Rather genes are seen as “contextual” or as part of an interactive network that encompasses the genome, the cell, the organism and the natural and social environment” Conference: “Genomics in Context”, 28th-30th September, 2005, ESRC Centre for Genomics in […]

Flesh & Bones, the online newsletter of National Museum of Health and Medicine, Wash. DC, writes in their August-September 2005-issue: National Museum of Health and Medicine announces the opening of its newest exhibition: “Penelope: The World’s First Autonomous, Vision-guided, Intelligent, Robotic, Surgical Instrument Server.” A robotic scrub nurse assistant with speech recognition, machine vision, and […]

Wade Rousch’s article ‘Social machines’ in the last issue of MIT’s Technology Review is a good summary of the social networking possibilities provided by ‘continuous computing’ (The blogversion of the article is easier to read than the MIT/TR-version.) It’s worth reading in itself, but it raises more problems than it answers.

Here are the abstracts from the Universeum network meeting (“Innovative Museums of Science of the Future, a European Answer”) held in Tartu, Estonia, 1-3 July 2005

En gruppe phd-studerende fra Danmark og UK (især i tilknytning til BIOS ved London School of Economics BIOS og til GRASPH, dvs. forskerskolen for folkesundhedsvidenskab ved KU, har taget initiativ til et DK-UK postgraduate forum on bio-studies, der har til formål at “further mutual understanding of the national, cross-national and cross-cultural dimensions of the field […]

Nik Brown (University of York) “What is new about the ‘new’ medical technologies?”, Kbh, 28. september 2005, kl. 14-16

Det næste møde i serien “Artefacts” afholdes i Washington, 6.- 8. november, 2005. “Artefact”-møderne er beregnet for videnskabs-, teknologi- og medicinhistorikere, der in one way or another use objects in their historical arguments […] and to promote discussion on the roles that objects play in exhibits dealing with the history of science and technology. Årets […]

Medicin og literatur (for ikke tale om medicin og poesi) er centrale forskningsområder for enhver seriøs medicinhistoriker. Når det gælder det interessante speciale medicinske limericker har forskningen dog længe været hæmmet af mangel på gode limerick-samlinger. Men nu er den endelig kommet: websiden, der indholder al verdens medicinske limericker (se www.oedilf.com (for Omnificent English Dictionary […]