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If you want to keep an eye on what goes on in history of (recent) biomedicine in Germany — and in German history of science, technology and medicine generally — the on-line directory of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik is the place to look, see http://www.dggmnt.de/umfrage/index.html. (thanks to Sybilla […]

Here’s the manuscript to my talk at Residència d’Investigadors in Barcelona Thursday 30 March. It’s a modified version of an article that’s being published in a special issue about university museums in Opuscula Musealia later this year. There are no notes in this blog version. If you prefer a Catalan version (!), you can get […]

‘Mediated Bodies’, International conference, 14-16 September 2006, Faculty of Arts and Culture, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

If you happen to be in Barcelona on the 30th of March, why don’t you come and listen to my talk “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” at Sala de conferències de la Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC / Generalitat de Catalunya), carrer de l’Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona, at 7pm. Organizers: Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC – Generalitat […]

Programmet er opdateret og kan nu læses her

Workshop “The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices”, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 2:00-5:00pm, Lancaster University, IAS Meeting Room 2-3 This workshop will focus on some of the material artefacts associated with the contemporary development of the life sciences, as well as the forms of work associated with them, especially as these artefacts move across institutional […]

Good news for scholars interested in biomedicine and society — the first issue of the new journal BioSocieties, “an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences, genomics and neuroscience” is announced to appear in March 2006.

Jens Lohferts forelæsning om “Litteratur og medicin” ved det eksterne Museion-seminar d. 7. februar blev optaget af StudenterTV. Forelæsningen sendes på Kanal København mandag d. 6. marts kl. 11.30 til 12.30.

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

This call for papers has just arrived from BIOS, LSE: The BIOS Centre is organizing an international conference on 7-9 September 2006 at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The aims of the conference are to provide a comparative and global perspective on present forms of practice in the life sciences. The Organizing […]

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 […]

We’ve just missed the NEUROfest in New York where some 100 artists in 70 events over 3 weeks presented performances inspired by various neurological conditions. Ended last weekend, unfortunately …