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April 2006

Minisymposium on "Evolutionary Medicine", University of Copenhagen, Friday 15 December, 2006

By Biomedicine in museums

Preliminary announcement:
The Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Copenhagen are planning a joint half-day symposium on “Evolutionary Medicine”, Friday 15 December, 2006. Keynote speakers include professor Randolph Nesse (Univ of Michigan) and professor Stephen Stearns (Yale Univ). Their talks will be followed by a panel discussion with a number of scientists and scholars interested in evolutionary aspects of medicine.
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Max Planck Research Network Seminar "History of Scientific Objects", Copenhagen 8 – 12 May

By Biomedicine in museums

There are still a few vacant seats around the table at the Copenhagen station of the Max Planck Research Network’s European Wandering Seminar, “History of Scientific Objects”, 8 – 12 May. Remaining seats will be distributed according the first-come-first-seated principle. PhD students will have priority. Participation fee is 300 DKK per day (including coffee and lunches). Inquiries to Thomas Söderqvist, Medical Museion, ths@mm.ku.dk, not later than Friday 5 May at noon.
Program (can also be read on Hugin & Munin) and background literature:
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Bliver vi klogere af danske naturvidenskabs-, teknologi- og medicinkanoner?

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Findes der nogle gode argumenter for at oprette danske (eller svenske, eller norske, eller monegaskiske) medicinske, teknologiske og naturvidenskabelige kanoner? Jeg tvivler på det. For det første har hverken medicin, teknologi eller naturvidenskab noget særligt nationalt præg. Og for det andet er kanonbegrebet med til at fordreje forståelsen af, hvordan medicin, teknologi og naturvidenskab udvikles historisk.
Læs resten af argumentet i tidskriftet BioZoom, nr 1/2006. Hele artiklen findes her.
Læs de øvriga fem artikler på temaet “Naturvidenskabelig kanon” i BioZoom her.

A dead blog — or just the annual Easter break?

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One of my friends asked if the blog is dead because of zero activity between 5 and 17 April. No, it’s not dead, it’s just been hibernating. Danish Academia usually closes down completey for about 10 days in the Easter holidays, and so did our research group. But we’ll be back! Next Wednesday we are having our first annual meeting with the Novo Nordisk Foundation steering committee to justify another year of funding. I’m sure we will convince them: we’ve had a good and productive year of research work, internal seminars, public meetings — and blogging activities.

Who's afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?

By Biomedicine in museums

Here’s the manuscript to my talk at Residència d’Investigadors in Barcelona Thursday 30 March. It’s a modified version of an article that’s being published in a special issue about university museums in Opuscula Musealia later this year. There are no notes in this blog version. If you prefer a Catalan version (!), you can get it in a hard copy printed translation; write to ths@mm.ku.dk
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