Biomedicine on Display

The 4th European Biannual Conference of the Society for Science, Literature, and the Arts will be held in Amsterdam, 13-16 June 2006. Deadline for submission of abstratcs and session proposals is December 5, 2005.
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Oplæg til det interne museion-seminar d. 29. november 2005.

Resultatet af samlingsrevisionen har været fremlagt til drøftelse på et tidligere museion-seminar (not 1). I rapporten beskrives baggrunden for samlingernes nuværende tilstand og forudsætningerne for at bringe dem i en forsvarlig og fuld anvendelig tilstand, som samtidig sikrer at de ikke nedbrydes på grund af utilstrækkelig opbevaring og håndtering. I afsnit 5.11, s. 27 ff, behandles disse forhold med henblik på en vurdering af hvilke ressourcer det vil kræve, at bringe samlingerne op på en tilstand der opfylder nationale som internationale standarder (not 2) Continue Reading »

The 1st annual symposium of the DK-UK Postgraduate Forum on Bio-studies took place at BIOS Research Centre for the study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society, London School of Economics, 17-18 November 2005:
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Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK)
at the University of Oslo
February 2nd.- 3rd 2006

Give me a laboratory and I will raise the world!

Decades of science-studies have demonstrated the ways in which knowledge is power; the ways in which laboratories in particular, and science, in general, are generative and transformative nature-factories. Through these new objects, new matters of facts, are made available to the public and to politics. Thus it is up to politics to discuss and decide. However, in framing the issue this way we continue to treat politics as discourse, as ideas, as an exclusively human affair. Is it not time we started exploring the materialities of politics? Continue Reading »

Som nævnt i et tidligere indlæg på bloggen deltog Anders, Nicole og jeg i årets museumsfaglige koordineringsmøde i Fuglsøcenteret fra d. 16.-18. november 2005.

I dette indlæg er der et referat af det indledende møde der var fælles for alle 420 deltagere. I de efterfølgende faglige orienteringsmøder åbnede Nicole og jeg diskussionen i den konserveringsfaglige gruppe med indlæg, der har baggrund i arbejdet med at sikre, at Medicinsk Museions humane præparatsamlinger er i en god bevaringstilstand, så de bl.a. kan anvendes i fremtidige formidlingsprojekter. Continue Reading »

Frit fra ODM’s nyhedsbrev:
På initiativ fra det franske kulturministerium afholdte de franske museer en museumsnat. Dette viste sig at være en så stor succes, at initiativet har bredt sig til resten af Europa.
De danske museer opfordres derfor til at holde åbent lørdag den 20. maj 2006 fra solnedgang til kl. 01.

se evt.: http://www.culture.gouv.fr/nuitdesmusees2005/
og: http://www.dkmuseer.dk/

AO

Det gennemgribende tema for de faglige indlæg var industriens år i 2007. Men der blev også plads til næste års tema; Renæssancen, og meget kort omkring emnet deaccesionering.

Programmet var tæt booket med indlæg til kl. 22 onsdag og fra 9 – 19 torsdag. Om end at overskrifterne ikke lød særligt lovende, så var der alligevel meget godt at hente i form af inspiration til de opgaver, som ligger foran os. Continue Reading »

Organisationen Danske Museers Faglige Orienteringsmøde
15-17 november 2005
Fuglsø

Organisationen Danske Museers faglige orienteringsmøde er et fælles møde for alle danske kulturhistoriske museer, der finder sted én gang om året.
Mødet forløber over 2 dage og er delt op i et fælles møde, hvor bestyrelsen aflægger beretning fra det forgangne år, samt forventninger til fremtiden. Herudover en debat af høj aktuelle emner. Continue Reading »

The worlds of media, consulting, medical science and literature are interacting in different and interesting ways, like the Café Scientifique organisation. Another initative has been taken by Plumbland Consulting Ltd., a consulting company owned by two partners with a bioscience background and a strong interest in science policy and science communication. They have started SciTalk, a new contact service aimed at linking scientists and writers together to give authors inspiration and bring a more realistic picture of (medical) science into fictional writing — see this article in the Times Higher Education Supplement (21 Oct).

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

First of all, I apologize that the topic of the seminar has been announced to be the introduction of kidney transplantation at Rigshospitalet. During the past months, my focus has changed, and the material that I would like to discuss on Tuesday is the first and incomplete draft for an article on the history of organisation of kidney transplantation in Denmark from the mid-1960s onwards, thus a much wider topic. My purpose in the text is to examine different perspectives on how this organisation changed, primarily with a focus on the early period from ca. 1965 to 1980. Continue Reading »

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 Show?’:
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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 Virtual Laboratory, which focuses on the history of the experimentalization of life in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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I sometimes wonder how the activities of this department are perceived by the rest of the medical faculty? — a thought triggered by the abstract of Robert Doubleday’s talk (to be held tomorrow at noon Continue Reading »

Kulturnatten satte atter gang i funderingerne over hvordan vi konceptualiserer ‘dem’, der kommer for at se udstillingerne, går med på omvisninger og besøger hjemmesiden (evt. læser bloggen)? Den måde vi begrebsliggør ‘dem’ på er ikke helt uden betydning for vores forståelse af Medicinsk Museions offentlige interface.
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