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Just want to draw your attention to an interdisciplinary conference on “Concepts of Infection” to be held 29-31 March, 2007 at the University of Bristol (UK). See below or: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/concepts_infection/index.html

Given all these tens of thousands of public and private medical clinics around the world that all look the same — how can one separate the functional trivia from the truly chic. Now Bill T. at Cool Hunter has found the true nugget: Singapore’s The Clinic, which doesn’t look, smell or sound (or work) like any other clinic: Upstairs, The Clinic offers a dining experience like […]

I don’t know what to think about the neon artwork depicting proteins related to deadly diseases displayed in the windows of the Wellcome Trust’s headquarters on Euston Road in London: The neon art “is mesmerising passers-by in the centre of London, and acting as a bittersweet reminder of the devastation of serious medical conditions”, says the […]

University Museums and Collections (UMAC) holds its 7th international conference in Vienna, 19-24 August 2007 under the umbrella of ICOM’s general conference on the theme “Museums and Universal Heritage”. UMAC’s subtheme — “Universities in Transition – Responsibilities for Heritage” — focuses on universities in transition effect university museums and collections and the attitudes to cultural heritage. Here’s UMAC’s call for […]

This year’s ‘bonus’ theme issue of The Lancet (vol. 368, supplement 1, December 2006) has several articles about medicine, art and creativity; it can be read online in this smart browsable version until early February 2007.

The Science Communication Group at Imperial College, London invites to a conference on Science & the Public, May 19, 2007. Science studies research tends to focus on “the lab”, being chiefly concerned with the internal workings of the scientific community. This conference aims to bring together the strands of academia that consider science as it intersects with non-scientific […]

Believe it or not — but this humble blog has been nominated for the 2006 Medical Weblog Award, in three categories: Best Medical Blog, Best Literary Medical Blog, and Best Medical Technologies Blog. Vote now, here!

Thinking of our anthology-in-progress (Biomedicine on Display), I’ve pondered possible ways of encouraging collaborative writing projects — and was inspired the other day by Laura Cohen’s post “Why Can’t a Wiki Be More Like a Blog?” on Library 2.0: An Academic’s Perspective. Wikis are great for collective editing, but discourages people who “just” want to add […]

Medical gadgets on display for sale I’m just browsing around to find examples of biomedicine on display in a non-museum context, like this Fujinon 400 Video Endoscopy System by http://www.1800endoscope.com/. Some are better, some (like this one) are worse. But they demonstrate the variety of object display practices out there.

Sara Kjellberg (who writes her PhD on science blogging at the University of Lund and takes part in the Towards a New Materialism-seminar) summarizes the science blog year of 2006. The tendency is clear: Postgenomic and Scienceblogs have already become the two major science blog portals.

It’s time to nominate and vote for the best medical blog in 2006. MedGadget, the ezine for new medical technologies invites to the third annual Medical Weblog Awards: “These awards are designed to honor the very best in the medical blogosphere, and to highlight the diverse world of medical blogs”. The categories are: Best Medical Weblog Best […]

Museum displays are not just about the exhibitions. The museum shop often gets as much, and sometimes more, attention (and usually has more effect on overall income than the entrance fees). We don’t have a museum shop yet, unfortunately, but when we get one I’ll vote for a full series of computer mice in the shape of organs, like this cute […]