recent biomed

Celebrity plays an enormous role in popular culture — just think of film making and Academy Awards (Oscars). Yet with some exceptions, e.g. a recent conference and a follow-up blog, Academia (of the university kind, not the film industry’s!) shuns the phenomenon of celebrity. Neither have historians of science, technology and medicine paid much attention […]

The Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen hosts a meeting on “Epidemiology from different perspectives” (“Epidemiologi set fra forskellige faglige vinkler”), 12 October, 1-4PM (room 2.1.12, CSS, Copenhagen). Our own Susanne Bauer starts with a presentation of her research project on data collection practices in recent epidemiology.

My spam mail filter (Spamfighter) is pretty efficient and I usually empty the spam folder without paying much attention to its content. But sometimes I take a closer look. Last night the filter had caught a mail that wanted to sell me laboratory mice with the following argument: Dear Colleague, Mice generated by Ozgene have […]

(Added 18 July: Registration dead-line has been extended to 30 July) The ‘science wars’ of the 1990s is already history, but the relations between scientists and scholars of science studies and recent history of science and medicine continue to raise concern. The Centre for Science Studies at Lancaster University is organising a conference ‘Getting Underneath […]

The former DK-UK Postgraduate Network on Bio-studies has merged with something called PLSSG (Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group). This way, they say, “we can initiate local subgroups and arrangements as well as explore comparative and transnational trends”. So far the network is mainly limited to members in Denmark and the UK, but hopefully others […]

The current issue of leading U.S. weekly newspaper The Onion carries a groundbreaking feature article on the upcoming season for transplant organ harvest

Finn Kamper Jørgensen, direktør for Statens Institut for Folkesundhed, har taget initiativ til en temadag den 7. juni om “Sundhedspolitiske erindringer fra min ministertid”, hvor otte danske sundhedsministre og en departmentschef fortæller erindringer fra deres embedstid. 40 minutter hver. Det er en interessant seminarform, på grænsefladen mellem mundtlig politikerselvbiografi og “vidneseminar” (witness seminar), som vil […]

A 1-day-conference on biobank governance is held at University of Vienna’s political science department, organized by the interdisciplinary research platform “Life-Science-Governance” (LSG): “Biobank Governance in Comparative Perspective: Strategies – Ethics – Resistance” This is from their announcement: This interdisciplinary conference focuses on the governance of biobanks. Biobanks constitute a new challenge for governance, and can […]

A forthcoming symposium — “The making up of organisms: Mapping the future of biological models and theories”, which will be held 8-10 June 2006 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris — illustrates the fascinating possibilities for mobilising the history, philosophy and social studies of biology and medicine for more future-oriented studies and as a […]

Udstillingsmediet er jo meget mangfoldigt og kan derfor bruges i mange forskellige sammenhænge. Fx. den kombinerede konference og udstilling om nanoteknologi, som Innovation Lab arrangerer i Århus den 1. juni i samarbejde med iNano centret på Aarhus Universitet og det danske nanoteknologiske netværk (NaNet). Mødet plus udstillingen (“Smallscapes”) er tilrettelagt for skandinaviske virksomheder, der ønsker […]

Good news for historians of medicine, viz., we are now having free online access to back issues of a number of biomedical journals at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov Here’s a excerpt from the press release from Wellcome Trust:

If you are in London on Thursday 25 May, you’re invited to attend my talk at the South Kensington Institute for the history of Technology (which is a collaborative enterprise of the Science Museum and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College), titled “Microarray Technology and Regimes of Biopower: a […]