http://www.corporeality.net/museion Medical Museion @ University of Copenhagen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The journal Medical Humanities --- one of the journals in the BMJ Group portfolio, started in the year 2000 as a twice-yearly special edition of the Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) --- is on the outlook for new manuscripts. The incoming editor Deborah Franklin (who also has her own blog), says that the journal has the ambition ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/25/medical-humanities-the-journal-wants-manuscripts/ I've learned about several kinds of DNA --- non-coding DNA, junk DNA, satellite DNA, selfish DNA, triple-stranded DNA and so forth --- but I've never heard about sleep DNA before. Until today: Clue: I've been surfing around to find a new mattress for my aching back (bad REM sleep = bad blog posts) and ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/24/sleep-dna-the-personalized-buzz-comes-to-the-madras-industry/ For a decade, University Museums in Scotland (UMIS) have organized biennial conferences dealing with themes like cultural entitlement and museums (2006), the significance of collections (2004), the alleged 'death of museums' (2000), etc. (see all programmes here). This year's conference in Aberdeen (20-21 November 2008) will focus on 'The Contentious Museum' because, say the organisers, "museums have become increasingly contentious places". I couldn't agree ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/24/the-contentious-museum-conference-in-aberdeen-in-november-seems-to-be-a-pretty-cautious-affair/ I very much like pipettes as mundane lab artefacts. And I'm wild with Eppendorf (see earlier posts here and here) because they produce these little ephemeral biomedical objects (like microcentrifuge tubes) which are museologically much more interesting than the fancy and first-time-ever stuff that is usually displayed in science, tech and medical ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/23/i-love-pipetting-how-about-you/ Now at least two companies (ScientificMatch and GenePartner) are providing dating services (down to $199 per single at GenePartner) based on the pretty solid scientific finding (Claus Wedekind and Dustin Penn, Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation, vol 15, 2000) that women are more attracted to men who express less similar HLA genes. Sensing and classifying the expression of the ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/22/love-at-a-sniff-come-on-ever-heard-about-culture/ A profile is (says OED) “a short biographical sketch or character study, esp. of a public figure.” But the National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science site is more than a series of profiles---it's also a potentially useful and searchable online collection of documents and iconographic material relating to “several prominent twentieth-century ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/22/profiles-in-science-both-updated-and-outmoded-a-review-of-national-library-of-medicines-website/ "Calling on a million minds for community annotation in WikiProteins" is the catchy title of an article in Genome Biology two months ago (vol. 9, issue 5, 2008; see online version here). The paper has received some attention in the blogosphere---not least because Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is one of the 23 co-authors of ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/21/calling-on-a-million-minds/ The Museum Boerhaave in Leiden is organising a conference on 'Lessons in anatomy made easy: Anatomical models in scientific and cultural context', 6-7 November 2008. Anatomical models nowadays are made of plastic and so common that simple ones are sold in the department stores everywhere. The origins of these models are to be ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/20/anatomical-models-in-scientific-and-cultural-context/ What's a 'liquid image' (or 'the liquidity of the image' for that sake)? The answer may be given at the Second International Conference on Image Science in the Göttweig Monastery near Vienna, 16-18 October. The conference --- which is organized by the Department für Bildwissenschaften at Donau Universität Krems (with the ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/19/whats-a-liquid-image-find-out-at-gazing-into-the-21st-century-against-analpha-bild-ismus-conference-on-images-in-art-science-and-popular-culture-gottweig-16-18-october/ Apropos Fleur's comment on the critical function of art -- Royal College of Art student Revital Cohen's project 'Life Support' problematizes the possible future use of animals as medical devices: Assistance animals - from guide dogs to psychiatric service cats - unlike computerised machines, can establish a natural symbiosis with the patients who ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2008/07/18/guide-dogs-for-the-blind-okay-but-what-about-ventilation-dogs-for-the-respiratory-impaired/