recent biomed

Remember Ivan Illich, the heckler of modern institutions? He was quite well-known in the 1970’s and 1980’s for his severe criticism of modern education (Deschooling society, 1971), and for his analysis of the problems of the medical institutions, especially the hospital system. In Medical Nemesis (1976) he suggested that the greatest threat to human health […]

Ingemar Nilsson og Margareta Hallberg, Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet (Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet) planlægger en konference på temaet “Samtidshistorisk medicinhistoria” mandag den 23. oktober 2006. De vil have forslag til præsentationer senest den 31. august (titel + kort abstract). Sendes til ingemar.nilsson@hum.gu.se (Nærmere detaljer kommer nok på dette website […]

There are still a few vacant seats around the table at the Copenhagen station of the Max Planck Research Network’s European Wandering Seminar, “History of Scientific Objects”, 8 – 12 May. Remaining seats will be distributed according the first-come-first-seated principle. PhD students will have priority. Participation fee is 300 DKK per day (including coffee and […]

… talking about biological citizenship etc – this has just arrived in my mailbox: Call for papers: Embodiment and the State Middelfart, Denmark, October 27-28, 2006 Keynote speakers: Margaret Lock, McGill University – Allan Young, McGill University – Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics – Berardino Palumbo, University of Messina – Sarah Nettleton, University of […]

Marta de Menezes, Nuclear Family (2004) (a rendition of gene array analysis, see more of Marta de Menesez’ work here) And here’s a short resumé of ‘The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices’ workshop at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University last Wednesday, a meeting which focused on gene arrays as scientific, museum and […]

The array and variety of visualizations in postgenomics are seemingly unlimited. Here’s a subset of Marc Vidal’s research group’s preliminary map of the human interactome, originally published in Nature, vol. 437, pp. 1173-78 (2005).

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

A new series of Witness Seminars have been announced for the spring of 2006. The History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, headed by Tilli Tansey, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in London, are arranging the following four seminars between March and July: – March 16: The Early Development of […]

How do members of the public perceive biomedicine and biomedical scientists? What kind of experiences may lie behind these perceptions? And how do they change? These are crucial questions to be asked by any medical history museum that has the intention, somehow, to contribute to the public understanding of medicine. So far the answer is: […]

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 […]

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