web resources

Another on-line exhibition — “Visible Proofs – Forensic Views of the Body” — produced by the National Library of Medicine is much more impressive. It is almost as reluctant to use hyperlinks as “From ‘Monsters’¨to Modern Medical Miracles” (see my earlier review here), but the curators have made some serious efforts to use the web-medium […]

The National Library of Medicine has just launched an on-line exhibiton about conjoined (‘Siamese’) twins called “From ‘Monsters’ to Modern Medical Miracles“. It contains a number of fine images from the 15h century to the present, with short accompanying texts, based on a careful selection of the most autoritative primary and secondary sources. Yet I’m […]

I hate spam! And so do billions of e-mail and web users. Most of it is (rather harmless) advertising for viagra, porn movies or on-line poker games. Nevertheless it fills the mailbox and complicates making blog comments. That’s why almost everybody, including Bill Gates, hates it. But as Gustav Holmberg (in the Research Policy Institute […]

Phoenix Arts Association have been awarded a grant from The Wellcome Trust for artist Anna Dumitriu to work on a project about allergy entitled “Sensitive”: “The project is transdisciplinary and crosses the boundary between art and science enabling a greater understanding of allergy through scientific research and innovative art techniques (such as live art, video […]

The former DK-UK Postgraduate Network on Bio-studies has merged with something called PLSSG (Postgraduate Life Sciences and Society Group). This way, they say, “we can initiate local subgroups and arrangements as well as explore comparative and transnational trends”. So far the network is mainly limited to members in Denmark and the UK, but hopefully others […]

Good news for historians of medicine, viz., we are now having free online access to back issues of a number of biomedical journals at http://www.pubmedcentral.gov Here’s a excerpt from the press release from Wellcome Trust:

Just a spontaneous spin-off thought inspired by Susanne‘s project on the visualization of epidemiology — I fell across the Information Aesthetics blog with the subtitle “form follows data – towards creative information visualization”. I like the range of creative possibilities, e.g. this pic: “an interactive photo mosaic of a graphical icon or logo made up […]

The LabLit.com-website is a “labor of love” website/netzine edited by Jennifer Rohn, who has worked for 15 years in virology, cell biology, cancer research and gene therapy and has, as she says “an incurable addiction to science-related literature”. The site is “dedicated to real laboratory culture and to the portrayal and perceptions of that culture […]

The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge has launched a new internetbased teaching aid for school children, called Gallery Challnge. See http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/whipple/gallerychallenge. They invite to a reception on Tuesday 14th February, 1-3pm, in the Whipple Museum Main Gallery, Department of HPS, Free School Lane, Cambridge.

Sage Ross, a graduate student and blogger at Yale University’s Program in History of Medicine and Science, has distributed the interesting message below through the H-Sci-Med-Tech-list. Sage’s point is that historians of science (and medicine) would get much out of engaging more with Wikipedia, and that writing Wikipedia-entries could also be used as a teaching […]