seminars

If you happen to pass by Oxford (UK) early next week, use the occasion to attend the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine seminar on Monday 12 November, when Miguel Garcia-Sancho will speak about “Creating a genetic language: DNA sequencing and the emergence of the modern biological databases (1965-1985)” (47 Banbury Road at 2.15 pm). […]

I’m planning to join this workshop with professor Lisa Cartwright, San Diego, at University of Linköping, Sweden, 21’st of November 2007. Hope to bring home inspiration for the ‘visualisation’ string of the Biomedicine on Display exhibition and book project, particularly regarding visualisations of foetal/embryonic material. Announcement and programme says: Medical practices are in various ways based […]

Isabelle Dussauge from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (see earlier post here) and a former guest in our seminar series (see here) is presenting her almost finished phd-thesis in a paper titled “Anatomy Remediated: Aligning Recent and Older Technomedical Gazes” at the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, tomorrow, Thursday 25 October: This presentation explores the paradoxical […]

Mark Jackson, Director of the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, is giving a lecture in London on Wednesday 21 November on “The Stress of Life: Hans Selye and the Search for Stability”. This is an exciting project because Selye (there is an unfinished short Wikipedia article about him) is one of the most interesting medical researchers in the 20th century, […]

Anthropologist Mark Auslander and philosopher Andreas Teuber at Brandeis University are convening a symposium called “Visualizing Science: Image-Making in the Constitution of Scientific Knowledge” (part of their fall 2007 meeting series, Mirrors of Science) on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 3.40-7pm at the Rose Art Museum:

45 faculty members and about 20 PhD-students throughout the University of Aarhus (Denmark) have just started a new interdisciplinary network for science, technology and medicine studies. See their website at www.stm.au.dk for news about conferences, seminars, PhD-courses, etc.; send an e-mail to stm@au.dk if you want to subscribe to their newsletter or if you are interested in learning more […]

Tuesday, 9 October 2007, 14:00-16:00 Christina Brandt (Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin) will discuss  fictional imaginations and literary representations of the figure of the clone (late 1960s to early 1980s) from a history of science perspective.  Location: Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, Fredericiagade 18, 1310 København. Everyone is welcome. For more information, please contact […]

Jan Eric Olsén and I have just given a presentation in the Artefacts XII meeting held at the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology in Oslo, Monday 17 and Tuesday 18 September. Here’s the introduction to our presentation (links added): This is not a conference paper in the traditional sense — but rather a practical illustration of less conventional approaches to object exploration. […]

If you happen to be in the Greater Washington area in late September, take the opportunity to attend a lecture by Richard A. Rettig titled “History-Telling and Innovation in Medicine, a Discussion of False Hope: Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer”. It’s on Friday, September 28, 2007 at 12:00 in Building 50, room 1227-1233 in the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md.

On Friday 14 September William F. Crowley from the Massachusetts General Hospital will talk about “Changing Models of Biomedical Medical Research or Interregnums are Tough for Young Investigators” in the History of Biomedicine Lecture series at the NIH. He will address a basic phenomenon in biomedical policy in the postwar period: Over the past 60 years, biomedical research […]

Lynn Morgan er professor ved Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. Hendes forskning inkluderer social studies of science, antropologiske studier i livets begyndelser og afslutninger, og udviklingens politiske økonomi (se også http://www.phdpubhealth.dk/Seminarserier/stf06/). Lynn besøgte Museion i efteråret 2006 med oplægget “Embryo in/formation: the construction of embryo subjectivity […]

We’re used to think of the ‘microscopic body’ that was invented in the mid-19th century as a continuation of the ‘anatomical body’. Now, exploring “different modes of visuality (pre-modern, modern, post-modern) in medical-science imagery”, Kristen Ehrenberger, an MD and doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, suggests the concept of the ‘telescopic body’, […]