recent biomed

Efter tirsdagens heldagsseminar på KU om Abort og fostrets etiske status blev jeg i dag interviewet til P1s Orientering om abortpolitikkens historiske baggrund (med udgangspunkt i ph.d.-afhandlingen). Meget behageligt interview af Astrid Fischer, og ift. mediestrømmen ellers luksuriøst megen tid til at fortælle sin historie til en meget bredere kreds. Kort sagt: En top god mulighed som ville være […]

The next research seminar at Medical Museion takes place Tuesday 11 April, 2-4pm, when Solveig Jülich presents her research project “Scientific research, photojournalism or special effects? Lennart Nilsson’s visual hybrid practices”. Internationally, Lennart Nilsson is best known for his images of foetuses that were first published in Life magazine in the 1960s and have since […]

Next Monday, 26 March, 4-6pm, I will attend the research seminar at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm to hear Marika Hedin speak about “Challenges of Exhibiting the History of Modern Science”. (Those who register at bokning@nobel.se will receive a copy of Marika’s background paper, which btw. is also written for the conference “History and the Public” at Swansea University 12-14 April.) Commentator at the […]

(for our Danish/Scandinavian readers): Our acquisitions curator, Søren Bak-Jensen, has written a set of guidelines for the acquisition of contemporary medical objects into the collections, including a list of FAQ’s (so far in Danish only). Comments are welcome, either directly to Søren or below: 

Medical Museion is arranging a three-part symposium over three days (17-19 April, 2007) on the notion of ‘presence’. In the last couple of years several scholars in the humanities, like Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Eelco Runia, have contributed to our understanding of the conceptual distinction between ‘meaning’ and ‘presence’. The distinction is especially interesting for museological practices and for […]

Today, the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm had invited to a discussion seminar about Isabelle Dussauge’s final draft for her doctoral dissertation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Technomedical Gaze in Sweden (1980-2000+). I had been asked to open the discussion with a summary of the pros and cons of the […]

If you happen to pass by the gallery at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass., don’t miss their new exhibit “It’s Alive! A Laboratory of Biotech Art” which runs another three weeks, until 7 April 2007. Biotech art is an emerging and diverse field that is still in the process of defining itself. This exhibit is […]

Medical Museion is arranging a cross-disciplinary workshop on ‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’, Copenhagen, 30 August – 1 September, 2007. The conjuncture of biomedicine and aesthetics is a rapidly growing field of artistic practice and academic reflection, dealing with an array of issues, from the public engagement with current biomedicine to methodological overlaps between […]

Apropos the earlier discussion of MRI scanners on this blog – here’s the manuscript for a short talk I gave to the Danish Radiological Society’s annual meeting in Copenhagen, Wednesday 24 January 2007.The full title of the talk was “MRI scanners and Madeleine cakes: Contemporary radiological heritage and professional identity”.

The research group “Creating Science: Crafting Stem Cells in a Moral Landskape” are inviting to a seminar + reception to launch their new book (in Danish) Håbets teknologi. Samfundsvidenskabelige perspektiver på stamcelleforskning (Technology of Hope: Social Science Perspectives on Stem Cell Research). Join them Monday 12 March, 3-5pm at Center for Sundhed og Samfund, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building 5, […]

Susanne’s recent comment to Søren’s post on the collection of MRI scanners a few weeks ago raises an important question about the ‘aesthetics of decay’. I.e., how do we handle incomplete, pillaged, delapidated etc. machines and machine parts, or as Susanne puts it: ‘ruins’? There is a lot of discussion about ‘the aesthetics of decay’ and a lot of photo material […]

The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Warwick are inviting to a one-day workshop on “Health, Governance and the Global: Cultural Histories and Contemporary Practices” on 9 March, 2007. Increasingly, the ‘global’ has become an ever-more regularly invoked term—both in popular anxieties about […]