recent biomed

Der er eksternt Museion-seminar tirsdag den 8. november, kl. 14-16. Sven Erik Hansen vil tale om “Elektroterapiens storhed og fald”. Abstract:

Take a look at Genomics, Society and Policy — a new peer reviewed online journal initiated by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) in Lancaster/Cardiff. The aim is to provide an outlet for interdisciplinary research on the social, ethical and legal aspects of genomics and related […]

Et tilbagevendende spørgsmål på internseminarerne i august-september har været hvordan ordet ‘biomedicin’ egentlig skal defineres. Foranlediget af et spørgsmål fra Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet ved KU, har Den Centrale Videnskabsetiske Komité nu kommet med deres definition:

Ved et kort morgenmadsmøde fredag f.m. (7. oktober) fortalte Ken Arnold om planerne for ombygningen af Wellcome Trust‘s gamle hovedbygning (183 Euston Rd.) til en nyt kombineret udstillings-, biblioteks-, forsknings-, og events-center for biomedicinens kultur og historie (“Wellcome Collections”). De har lige udgivet en piece, som beskriver projektet og fordelingen af aktiviterne på de fem […]

The European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) next conference is held in Lausanne, Switzerland, August 23-26, 2006. The conference theme is “Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces” — which points to some of the central cultural and political questions of recent biomedicial and biotechnological practices: What is it to be human […]

The patient is a central category of recent (bio)medicine — this symposium focuses on the fragile patient, the patient as an object of biomedical science and industrialized care: The Patient: A Symposium, Bucknell University, October 18 & 19, 2006 Precariously situated between home and hospital, work and bed, life and death, the patient occupies a […]

Invitation and call for 1st annual symposium of the DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies: Current issues in bio-studies and society, 17th-18th November 2005, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK This event will be the first meeting of the newly founded DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies. In both the United Kingdom and in Denmark, […]

Those interested in the recent history of biomedicine shouldn’t miss Nikolas Rose’s Clifford Barcley Lecture “Will biomedicine transform society?” held at the LSE in February 2005. Below is the abstract; the whole paper is available through this link. Will biomedicine transform society? The political, economic, social, and personal impact of medical advances in the twenty-first […]

Call for Papers: Special issue on the history and aesthetics of visual images and visualization (for Journal of the History of the Neurosciences): Physical images and cognitive visualization offer two frames of reference for thinking about the history and development of neuroscience. The images of neurological illustration, for example, constitute a sourcebook on early medical […]

The term ‘biomedicine’ is (surprise, surprise) central to this project. But it is somewhat ambiguous, as Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating pointed out in their historical review of the term in Chapter 3 of Biomedical Platforms (2003). Viviane Quirke’s recent report from the symposium ‘The era of biomedicine: science, technology and health in France and […]

The first internal seminar on the new recent-biomedicine research projects will take place on Friday 2 September (see meeting agenda here). The idea of the meeting is to establish a basis for a common understanding of the scope and aims of the project.

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