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The Museums and Galleries History Group is pleased to announce the first issue of its biannual newsletter is now online at the MGHG website, www.mghg.org, containing news of projects, publications, research and events in the field of museum and gallery history.

In our series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (for earlier presentations, see here and here), the turn has now come to the on-line Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art which “exhibits the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection”. This “world’s largest” […]

DR1’s program ‘Harddisken’ har lige lavet et indslag om vores blog. Undertegnet er blevet interviewet i 10 min. — om vores egen blog, om blogging-fænomenet og om blogs som forskningskommunikation. Lyt på Harddiskens hjemmeside

Here’s a slightly delayed, but interesting news item from the world of collections: the RLG (which is a non-profit Mountain View-based organization with the aim to help scholars get ‘access to research materials held in libraries, archives, and museums’) had a meeting in July 2005 under the heading ‘Libraries, Archives, & Museums—Three-Ring Circus, One Big […]

It interesting to follow different attempts to create virtual medical history archives and exhibitions on the web, even if they don’t focus on recent biomedicine/biotechnology. One can alway learn something new; in this case — which many of you probably already know of — the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science’s (Berlin) on-line project, The […]

One of the many European medical history museums, the Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya in Barcelona, has now produced an English version of their website. That’s more than we can provide at the moment … 🙂 They seem to be interested mainly in the period before mid-20th century. For more info, contact Dr. […]

En gruppe phd-studerende fra Danmark og UK (især i tilknytning til BIOS ved London School of Economics BIOS og til GRASPH, dvs. forskerskolen for folkesundhedsvidenskab ved KU, har taget initiativ til et DK-UK postgraduate forum on bio-studies, der har til formål at “further mutual understanding of the national, cross-national and cross-cultural dimensions of the field […]

Medicin og literatur (for ikke tale om medicin og poesi) er centrale forskningsområder for enhver seriøs medicinhistoriker. Når det gælder det interessante speciale medicinske limericker har forskningen dog længe været hæmmet af mangel på gode limerick-samlinger. Men nu er den endelig kommet: websiden, der indholder al verdens medicinske limericker (se www.oedilf.com (for Omnificent English Dictionary […]

US Holocaust Memorial Museum har lige åbnet en online-udstilling om “Deadly medicine: Creating the Master Race”, dvs. om eugenik og dertil hørende medicinske tiltag i det Tredje Rige. Den er ikke vildt imponerende, men kan måske give nogle ideer alligevel?

Hold lige et øje med hvad der sker på BIOS, dvs. “Centre for the study of bioscience, biomedicine, biotechnology and society” ved London School of Economics and Political Science. De beskriver sig selv som: