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We’re just about to announce two new faculty positions here at Medical Museion — which raises the perennial problem of how to select the best candidates from dozens or more written applications. Seeing and hearing a person in live action often says more than thousands of words and an impressive CV. That’s why we interview selected applicants. But […]

As we watch the political wrangling over healthcare reform in the United States, one key element seems to be left out: consumer demand. For better or worse, Americans expect and even demand high-cost technologically-embodied medicine. A recent article on robotic surgery in the New York Times really drove this point home. “Results Unproven, Robotic Surgery […]

The most relevant academic question this year is asked by Paul Glasziou (Centre for Evidence-Based medicine, Oxford University), who gives a talk with this title in the Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, on Monday 15 March, at 10am (Øster Farimagsgade 5, room 15.3.15). The talk is based on his and I. Chalmers’s article […]

The Thackray Museum in Leeds is hosting an interesting meeting organised by artist Paul Digby on Saturday 20 March. Titled ‘Hybrid’ it gathers a group of interesting thinkers and practicioners on the interface between art and science: Siân Ede (Arts Director at the UK Branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and author of Strange and Charmed: Science […]

Contemporary biomedicine is full of plastic artefacts — from disposable gloves and syringes in the clinic to microwells and pipettes in the research lab. It’s materials and objects which make the preservation of the contemporary biomedical heritage for future generations pretty tricky. The short course ‘The Problem with Plastics’ given by Helen Alten at The […]

As I’ve written about before, we have a small but excellent (and recently restored) collection of moulages here at Medical Museion. Like they have many places in Europe. Which made me quite excited to read Jim Edmonson’s travel report from Paris and the Musée des moulages de l’hôpital Saint-Louis on Avenue Claude-Vellefaux: Read more here.

Everyone who has spent hours engaged in social networking services may recognise themselves in Irene Angelopoulos’s vitriolic attack on the “depressing daily grind” of virtual life (in Adbusters yesterday): We toil late into the night, unleashing an endless stream of status updates and tweets in a desperate attempt to keep ourselves relevant, desirable and in […]

The Galaxy Zoo team have just spread the news that the first scientific paper using Zoo 2 data has been submitted (to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society). Doesn’t mean it’s published yet, but it’s nevertheless a great step for the Galaxy Zoo citizen science projekt — and an inspiration for other participatory science […]

Science Museum in London is again announcing opening for Visiting Research Fellowships (£16,000 for eight months) and Short-Term Research Fellowship (£2,000 per month for a maximum of three months), both between May 2010 and May 2011) — see here or contact Peter Morris at peter.morris@nmsi.ac.uk. Deadline for applications (to Peter) is Friday 26 February.

Last year we announced the upcoming conference ‘Wissenschaft im Museum – Ausstellung im Labor’ which Anke te Heesen and Margarete Vöhrunger are organising in Tübingen 8-9 April. Now the final programme has been announced — it includes, among other things, a presentation growing out of our ‘Biomedicine on Display’ project and the exhibition ‘Split + […]

Last September, we announced the call for an upcoming meeting on digestive history in Dublin 30 April–1 May. Now it has materialised with a programme. As expected most talks are about 19th and early 20th century, with one exception — Katherine Angel (Warwick University) who will speak about “A Very Simple Answer: Causal Reasoning in […]

As I’ve announced in an earlier post, we’re opening the next show in the external exhibition area in the Panum Building — titled ‘Healthy Aging: A Life Span Approach’ — on next Monday (8 February) at 2pm. Yesterday, exhibition architect Mikael Thorsted and our own museum assistant Jonas Paludan were hanging some of Liv Carlé Mortensen’s colleages of […]