recent biomed

The first witness seminar to be held in Denmark (at least to my knowledge!) was held last week at the Panum Institute. Nine Danish medical doctors, either retired or in the final years of their career, gathered to discuss the historical development of the therapeutic procedure that had been central to their professional activities, and […]

2nd Annual Symposium of the Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Network, 14-17 January 2007, hosted by the Medical Museion The symposium will focus on how the recent biosciences challenge and reconfigure formerly stable categories: The social and the biological, the nature/culture dichotomy and the human/animal boundaries are increasingly blurred and become populated by hybrids, cyborgs […]

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.

Museion-seminarerne har været holdt siden januar 2004. Nedenfor finder du oversigt over og materiale til afholdte interne og eksterne Museion-seminarer. Seminarer afholdt 2006-2007, se her. Seminarer afholdt december 2005-juni 2006, se her. Seminarer afholdt efterår 2005, se her; forår 2005, se her . Tidligere seminarer findes under kategorien seminarer.

I cannot really explain why I’m so fascinated with this eight-minute animation of molecular mechanisms within the cell? “The Inner Life of a Cell” was created for Harvard University biology students by XVIVO, a scientific animation company. Turn off the accompanying music-hall piano sound and enjoy the “slithering, gliding and twisting through 3D space”. There […]

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.

DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Fellowship at the National Institutes of Health seeks to encourage historical research and writing about biomedical sciences and technology by providing a postdoctoral fellow, at the beginning stages of the professional career, with a year’s research experience in residence at the Office of NIH History.

Her er en tilbageblik på et studieforløb fra en af de medicinstuderende, som hvert år skriver opgaver på Medicinsk Museion. Mikkel Myatt skrev sin OSVAL II-opgave (en 8 ugers skriftlig opgave på lægestudiets 10 – 12. semester) om ”Psykiatriens historie fra 1970’erne til i dag – oplæg til en udstilling”. Ideen var at undersøge hvilken […]

Remember Michael Crichton’s science fiction thriller Prey (2002)? In which the bad guys created swarms of nanorobots, and the good guy lost his wife (but saved his kids) in his struggle to counter the swarms that left their secret lab environment somewhere in the Nevada desert to start replicating in a Darwinian fashion and thus […]

(Denne post var oprindeligt publiceret den 16. august, men er genopslået, pga den debat som har udfoldet sig i mellemtiden, se kommentarerne) Invitation til stiftende generalforsamling i faglig forening for STS i Danmark, 16. november 2006. Tema: Bredden og synligheden i dansk STS Science and Technology Studies er et internationalt, multidisciplinært felt, som er i […]

We tend to think of recent biomedical artefacts as more or less spectacular high-tech things, like gene sequencers, PET scanners, PCR machines or knock-out mice. But many vital artefacts in the biomedical laboratory or medical clinic are mundane things — like plastic gloves, ink markers and centrifuge tubes. They may not be so fancy, but […]