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November 2005

Scientists meets writers

By Biomedicine in museums

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).

The Virtual Laboratory — an on-line essay+ressource experiment

By Biomedicine in museums

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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Litteratur som kan fordybe diskussionen om samlingernes rolle i det samlede Museion-koncept?

By Biomedicine in museums

Jeg vil lige tage fat i Adam’s kommentar til seminaret i dag, nemlig at det er vigtigt at tænke handlingsplanen for samlingerne ind i et bredere museologisk og historiografisk (og måske endda filosofisk?) perspektiv. Detsamme gælder den handlingsplan for indsamling (‘acquisitions’) som går under dæknavnet ‘den gule’ og som vi kun har talt meget overfladisk om endnu. Jeg må indrømme at mit kendskab til litteraturen er nærmest ikke-eksisterende. Er der nogen der har gode ideer?