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On Tuesday I am going to give the introductory talk to a ‘meet-the-author’ discussion session at the Swedish History of Science and Technology Biannual Meeting in Stockholm, 8-10 April. (added 9 April: and again at the Dept of Science Studies, Univ of Århus, on Monday 14 April). My intro talk for the session—titled ‘The Historianimation of Contemporary […]

As we announced in an earlier post, a crew from Swedish Television visited Medical Museion in mid February. The first five minute program on the history of medicine was sent tonight—you can see it here (click “Fråga doktorn 080331″ and run the clip forward until about 8’40”). Not much contemporary biomedicine though, I’m afraid — […]

As we’ve announced before, the 14th meeting of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences will be held in Edinburgh, 17-21 September. Now the website is up for paper proposals and registration. This year’s meeting will be devoted particularly to aspects of “the use, culture, history, art and manufacture of models, prosthetics and surgical interventions” and […]

Here’s an interesting public-engagement-with-medicine project: Over the last couple of years the award winning Triangle theatre company in Coventry has developed a concept called the Immersive Museum Theatre. Now the Centre for the History of Medicine in Warwick is working with the company to use “museum collections – archives and artefacts – and historic locations as springboards for […]

Just want to remind all our readers about Jens Hauser’s skin-exhibition in Liverpool (see earlier post here) which is breaking the visitor records at FACT/Liverpool and ends with a special closing event on 29 March. Furthermore, the conference that went with the exhibition is now on record; and finally, the book (sk-interfaces: Exploding Borders–Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society) is out. […]

Oral history is strong in the UK, and so is history of medicine. The topic for this year’s Oral History Society‘s Annual Conference is ‘Who Cared? Oral History, Caring, Health and Illness: Marking 60 Years of the National Health Service’. The meeting is organised in association with the University of Birmingham Centre for the History of Medicine and […]

Some of our readers believe that this blog is one the most serious biomedicine-on-display blogs that exists. To balance this (clearly erroneous) view, I wish to draw your attention to this recent news from my favourite online channel, Onion News Network: Anonymous Philanthropist Donates 200 Human Kidneys To Hospital.

In June (8th-11th), an international Conference on the Inclusive Museum will take place in the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. The conference aims at bringing academics, museum curators and administrators, and policy makers together to engage in discussions on the future museums and their role. As it says in the call for paper: “At this time […]

The third Surveillance & Society conference will be held at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, 2nd to 3rd of April 2008. The conference will focus on everyday experiences of surveillance and feature keynote speakers Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and John McGrath. As announced on the conference homepage, participants are encouraged to present […]

We have problems with a slow host server today. We don’t have the patience to wait for the windows to open. So no postings today.

A propos the earlier post about Ingar Palmlund’s seminar on gender constructions in drug advertisements to be held in London tomorrow:  Mike Rhode has just posted a comment with a link to three posters covers of pamphlets from the collections of the NMHM which illustrate the gender construction topic very nicely. (Note added in private and not necessarily […]

A crew from Swedish Television (SVT) has just been visiting Medical Museion. They spent a full 10 hour day walking around the whole museum, from the golden lion on the ground floor to the syphilitic skulls on the third. Here they are focusing on one of Niels Finsen’s (Nobel Prize 1903) original lenses for light therapy of skin tuberculosis:           […]