February 2006

A new series of Witness Seminars have been announced for the spring of 2006. The History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, headed by Tilli Tansey, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in London, are arranging the following four seminars between March and July:
– March 16: The Early Development of Total Hip Replacement
– April 4: The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer
– May 9: Medical Ethics Education in Britain 1963-1993
– July 11: Superbugs and Superdrugs: The history of MRSA
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How do members of the public perceive biomedicine and biomedical scientists? What kind of experiences may lie behind these perceptions? And how do they change? These are crucial questions to be asked by any medical history museum that has the intention, somehow, to contribute to the public understanding of medicine. So far the answer is: We really don’t know. But something could perhaps be learned from a social experiment made by the Education Office at The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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Greetings from Rachel Mayeri:
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If you happen to be in Barcelona on the 30th of March, why don’t you come and listen to my talk “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” at Sala de conferències de la Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC / Generalitat de Catalunya), carrer de l’Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona, at 7pm.

Organizers: Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC – Generalitat de Catalunya) in Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (filial de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans) i Museu d’Història de la Medicina de Catalunya.

See further this link.

Hej alle — Sniff og jeg snakkede idag om at det ville være godt med en liste over potentielle ‘publication outlets’ for vores projekt — nedenstående er mit eget første bud (beskrivelserne er taget fra tidsskrifternes hjemmesider). Fyld gerne på listen med dine egne gode forslag!!
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Workshop “The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices”, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 2:00-5:00pm, Lancaster University, IAS Meeting Room 2-3

This workshop will focus on some of the material artefacts associated with the contemporary development of the life sciences, as well as the forms of work associated with them, especially as these artefacts move across institutional boundaries that might be said to separate the laboratory, the art gallery and the museum.
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The postgenomic.com blog is a brand new addition to the growing number of meta-blog tools — like technorati, but specializing in biomedicine and the life sciences. The blog aggregates posts from (presently some 100) life science and biomedicine blogs and uses data from these blogs to do several things.
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Good news for scholars interested in biomedicine and society — the first issue of the new journal BioSocieties, “an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences, genomics and neuroscience” is announced to appear in March 2006.

I thought museums were dwelling in the outer territories of the blogosphere — but mistaken I was. Günther Waibel, who is a contributor to the RLG staff blog hangingtogether (thanks to Constance Malpas, RLG Member Services in New York for drawing my attention to it), has a post about museum blogs where he points out that although some indeed use the medium to reach out to a larger audience, few are so far intended for museum professionals who wish to exchange information.
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