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We (that is, the “Biomedicine on Display” group) were invited to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Monday January 31, to give a minisymposium on our project (see program here). Here is the travel party, i.e., the research group plus our department administrator plus our department’s outreach officer, after arrival at Arlanda airport: From left to right: Søren Bak-Jensen […]

BBC Radio 4 launches a new series in 30 parts about the development of Western medicine, from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. Written and narrated by Andrew Cunningham, research fellow in Dept of HPoS, Univ of Cambridge. Starting Monday 5 February 2007 at 3.45pm and then every weekday for the next six weeks. More info here. (thanks to Jette […]

Google (who else?) have just launched the beta version of Patent Search. The database currently contains all approx. 7 million US patents from 1790s to mid-2006 — and will be continuously updated and expanded to cover a number of non-US patent offices as well. Read more about it here. Needless to say this is a potentially […]

Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskab belønner hvert år en studenteropgave inden for det medicin- og helsehistoriske område i bredeste forstand, herunder også odontologi og farmaci. Studenterprisen er på kr. 10.000. Præmien kan tildeles en eksamensopgave, f. eks. bachelor- eller OSVAL-opgave, der er blevet bedømt i det år, præmien uddeles i. Dog er specialer undtaget. Både studerende og […]

Nedenfor findes planerne for Medicinsk Museions interne og eksterne tirsdagsseminarer i efteråret 2006 og foråret 2007. Se efterårets program her. Se forårets foreløbige program her. Programmet opdateres løbende. De eksterne seminarer er for alle interesserede, mens de interne er for Museions egne medarbejdere. Hvis ikke andet angives, er seminartidspunktet kl. 14-16. Bagefter mødes vi til […]

Here’s another workshop that deals with one of the central issues for museums that try to make sense of recent biomedicine and biotechnology, viz. how humanness (“Menschsein”) is treated narratively in biomedicine and other cultural domains, like literature.

If you happen to have your way through Toronto in the autumn and spring, why not visit The Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto to attend its “Biopolitics + Technoscience” meeting series. This series is an interdisciplinary exploration of how life-itself is transformed through technology, science, and governance in a transnational world.   Its […]

The Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam-based Virtueel Platform are jointly organising a two-day event — a seminar and a workshop — on Thursday and Friday 9-10 November, on the theme of close-to-the-skin technology. See their website here.

MEDICINHISTORISK SEMINAR I LUND Fredag d. 8. december 2006 kl. 13.00-16.00 Sted: Sal F-1, Blocket, Universitetssjukhuset, Lund. Kaffe serveras.

Kidney transplantations are one of the most spectacular and controversial treatments in recent biomedicine. The history of kidney transplantations are one of the areas studies in the framework of the “Recent Danish Biomedicine”-project at Medical Museion, and in order to include not only written sources and archival material in this study, we have invited ten doctors to participate in a witness seminar on the subject.

Another on-line exhibition — “Visible Proofs – Forensic Views of the Body” — produced by the National Library of Medicine is much more impressive. It is almost as reluctant to use hyperlinks as “From ‘Monsters’¨to Modern Medical Miracles” (see my earlier review here), but the curators have made some serious efforts to use the web-medium […]

The National Library of Medicine has just launched an on-line exhibiton about conjoined (‘Siamese’) twins called “From ‘Monsters’ to Modern Medical Miracles“. It contains a number of fine images from the 15h century to the present, with short accompanying texts, based on a careful selection of the most autoritative primary and secondary sources. Yet I’m […]