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Last Friday, the 10th of February, I and some other forty curious spectators, gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to witness the artist Phillip Warnell swallow a pill camera and discuss the view of his belly with consultant gastroenterologist Dr. Simon Anderson. The event took place between 3.00pm and 8.00pm, which was approximately […]

I thought museums were dwelling in the outer territories of the blogosphere — but mistaken I was. Günther Waibel, who is a contributor to the RLG staff blog hangingtogether (thanks to Constance Malpas, RLG Member Services in New York for drawing my attention to it), has a post about museum blogs where he points out […]

Tim Boon, Science Museum, is organizing a session on “Science and documentaries” at the 2006 Film and History League Conference (“The Documentary Tradition”), November 8-12, 2006, www.filmandhistory.org. Here’s his call for papers:

In a post from 6 December I marvelled at the fact that there were about 22,4 million blogs registered by the Technorati search machine. Today, two months later, there are 27,1 million blogs, i.e., an increase of more than 75.000 blogs every day! Read more here.

SUTURE: ARTWORK WITHOUT ANAESTHETIC, 14 January – 31 March 2006, Old Operating Theatre Museum SUTURE is a two part exhibition of works, made in response to the The Old Operating Theatre Museum’s collection of medical artifacts. Following the relocation of the Museum from the Garret to the Crypt of St Thomas’ Church, SUTURE PART 2 […]

Indtryk fra en studietur 18.-21. januar 2006 Studieturen gik til Berliner Medizinhistorischen Museum og til Deutschen Hygiene Museum i Dresden.

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference Science and the Public: interdisciplinary approaches Saturday, May 20th 2006, Imperial College, London This day-long postgraduate conference has been organised by Imperial College and the London PUS Seminar Group to help bring together researchers from the disparate strands of academia that consider science as it exists and influences public life. […]

(pic borrowed from: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~evers/think/mimesis/theory.htm) ‘Representation’ is not only a key concept in biomedicine, but also in museology and in the history of medicine. In all three realms the concept of ‘representation’ bridges the gulf between ‘pure’ science and ‘pure’ art. Scientific reports, historical narratives and exhibitions — all three transcend the neat dichotomy between culture […]

If you want a nice pet for your kids, why go to a home for abandoned cats (it only makes you feel bad because you can’t buy them all) or get in trouble with your neighbor who sold you the most wonderful kitten (it just happened to grew into a psychotic monster)? Get a fresh […]

In our irregular series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (see earlier presentation here), the turn has now come to The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, now at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Founded by a certain Bob McCoy (when?) it contains some 250 quack devices from the 19th and 20th centuries, […]

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science announces two postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the Research Network „History of Scientific Objects“. (see also former post of 9 December)