recent biomed

Den här essän skrevs som bidrag till konferensen “Medicinhistoria idag” (se annonce här), som hölls på Nobelmuseet i Stockholm den 22 august 2005. Konferensens målsättning var att “inventera och diskutera var svensk medicinhistorisk forskning står idag och vart den är på väg” (not 1) och ingick i den inledande sessionen om “Medicinhistoriens historia”, tillsammans med […]

EASST Conference “Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces”, 23-26 August, 2006, University of Lausanne. Paper and session proposals will now be accepted up to the new deadline of January 16th, 2006 Session proposals are provisionally published on the conference website ( see “what’s new”). Send your session proposal as soon as possible to easst2006@unil.ch

(Oplægget blev oprindeligt skrevet den 21. nov, men pga de mange kommentarer er det opdateret til den 6. dec) Hører biobanker — og især det materiale som er i dem — til Medicinsk Museions aktivitetsområde?

Two of my favourite study objects right now are science blogs and gene arrays (there are in fact some interesting structural analogies between these seemingly disparate phenomena which are worth exploring further). So I searched Technorati today (they are now listing amazing 22,4 million blogs) for ‘gene array’ and found

The 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts will be held in Amsterdam, 13-16 June 2006. Deadline for submission of abstratcs and session proposals is December 5, 2005.

The 1st annual symposium of the DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies took place at BIOS Research Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics, 17-18 November 2005:

Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo February 2nd.- 3rd 2006 Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world! Decades of science-studies have demonstrated the ways in which knowledge is power; the ways in which laboratories in particular, and science, in general, are generative and transformative nature-factories. Through […]

The worlds of media, consulting, medical science and literature are interacting in different and interesting ways, like the Café Scientifique organisation. Another initative has been taken by Plumbland Consulting Ltd., a consulting company owned by two partners with a bioscience background and a strong interest in science policy and science communication. They have started SciTalk, […]

First of all, I apologize that the topic of the seminar has been announced to be the introduction of kidney transplantation at Rigshospitalet. During the past months, my focus has changed, and the material that I would like to discuss on Tuesday is the first and incomplete draft for an article on the history of […]

Klaus Høyer, adjunkt ved Afdeling for Sundhedstjenesteforskning. “Etik som reguleringsform – nye perspektiver på magt og moral” Fredag 25. november, kl. 14.00 – 16.00.

Opdateret 8. november 2005: + Her er programmet for det hhv. interne og eksterne Museion-seminar i efteråret 2005. Nogle dage står tomme, men der kan komme efternølere. + Hvis ikke andet angives, er seminartidspunktet kl. 14-16. + De eksterne seminarer er åbne for alle interesserede. De interne er kun for husets egne medarbejdere. + Programmet […]

This draft paper was presented in the session ‘Carnevalesque medicine’ at the annual meeting of the Society of Social Studies of Science, Pasadena, Ca., 20-22 October, 2005. If you cite this paper, please refer to the following url: http://www.corporeality.net/museion/index.php?p=261 Thomas Söderqvist, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen (ths@mm.ku.dk) A Most Unruly Kind of Objects: Biomedical researchers […]