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  • Om hämnd — att hänga ut skitstövlar med namn
  • Trettiofem livsöden, alla noggrant vägda på vår privata historievåg
  • En atmosfär av lärdom, med genklanger av disciplin och ordning.
  • Halvseklet efter min barndom känns som ett kortare tidsrum än kvartsseklet före
  • Att sätta rätt rubrik på kapitlet om gymnasiet
  • Mitt första intryck av dansk antisemitism
  • De sex mest spillda åren i mitt liv
  • Att göra sin ångest m.m. till en hobby
  • Om glädjen i att kontakta gamla vänner och kolleger
  • The memory of smell, atmospheres, and memoir writing
  • Mitt behov av att klara mig själv
  • Memoarskrivande som ömsesidig bildning
  • Drömmen om den blåa dörren
  • Min längtan efter Arktis
  • Emerituslimbo
  • Memoir writing keeps self-absorbtion in check
  • Om memoarskrivandet och dödskonsten (ars moriendi)
  • I’m eschewing new life experiences
  • Yet another argument for memoir writing
  • Is memoir writing a socially irresponsible activity?
  • The life course as a process of punctuated equilibrium
  • Att vara en när-/frånvarande far
  • Visualization of my publication record
  • Scientific memoirs as stories of personal decline
  • Är Houellebecq’s Soumission verkligen satir?
  • En dröm om att ge avkall på sitt barn
  • An image that encapsulates my life
  • Det börjar sina med nya fakta från 1950- och 60-talen
  • ‘Diminishing returns’ i biografiarbetet
  • Insikter om begränsning som varat hela livet
  • Hur en homoerotisk dröm kan bryta en skrivblockering
  • Mina (minst) tio akademiska identiteter under 50 års tid
  • Om intellektuell otrohet
  • Studier i grekiska — de två mest underbara åren i mitt liv
  • Om lukten av paradis
  • The point of museums is to play with material stuff
  • Do you throw personal stuff away?
  • The muse is political — the museum is political
  • What do you call events that signify a specific year on the timeline?
  • Objective time in autobiographical writing
  • The memory of atmospheric smell
  • I can’t recall a single meal –
  • Writing memoir for publication or for the desk drawer?
  • I was a mistake
  • Ethical considerations
  • Fox or hedgehog?
  • Canities — what’s that?
  • The earliest memories — the act is lost in oblivion, but the metaphor remains
  • Vetenskapshistoria som skönlitteratur
  • Dreaming about Jacques Ellul
  • Böcker som har forändrat mitt liv – Konrad & Szelenyis Die Intelligenz auf dem Weg zur Klassenmacht
  • Counter-factual autobiography
  • Money in the archive
  • Moral and emotional self-spanking
  • Jag öppnar dörrarna till minnesrummen
  • Episodic memory and narrative reconstruction
  • Time to take stock
  • (Museums)kultur som branding- og marketingsværktøj
  • The making of Femme Vitale
  • "Anatomy, art and the body" — Copenhagen symposium on Vesalius' 500th anniversary
  • Materialitet og sanselighed — om at bryde visualitetens tyranni på museer
  • Science in the Arts seminar at Medical Museion on 9 April, 1-2 pm
  • Galen som geometer og læge
  • Touching The Tactile — workshop at Medical Museion, 10-11 April, 2014
  • "Så tæt på hinanden som ordene Leber og Leben"
  • Vetenskapsmuseer och den materiella vändningen i humaniora – biopolitisk abdikation eller medborgarengagemang?
  • Thomas Söderqvists tale ved åbningen af MEDICOTEKNIK, 27. november 2013
  • Prodekan Birthe Høghs tale ved åbningen af MEDICOTEKNIK, den 27. november 2013
  • Er det ubetinget godt at blive ved med at være nyskabende og nytænkende?
  • Forskning og livsløb – har kreativiteten en udløbsdato? Debatdag på Medicinsk Museion den 8. oktober.
  • Social media, research and museum curatorship — a concrete example
  • The material life-course of a scientist
  • Hybrid Psychiatry Room (beta version) in Medical Museion
  • Verdensklasse, verdensklasse, verdensklasse …
  • Is Yammer really an appropriate communication tool for universities?
  • The Data Body on the Dissection Table — a joint Leonardo/Olats and Medical Museion event
  • Guest lectures at Medical Museion: Massimiano Bucchi, Morgan Meyer and Bruno Strasser
  • Collecting and displaying healthcare ICT — are medical museums ready for the future?
  • Taking down exhibitions can bring us closer to the objects than building new ones (and create more fun)
  • The colour historians were here
  • Taking down exhibitions is almost as fun as building them up
  • Human remains — constructing the 'Under the Skin'-exhibition
  • The substance of fat – a multisensory event about fat
  • A research spirit and experimental attitude in museums
  • Vi har mistet vores publikumsmedarbejder, Anni Harris
  • The material life-course of a scientist: are biographical exhibitions possible?
  • Opening the biohacking lab at Medical Museion
  • Objects that were demonstrated, touched, fingered, fondled, caressed and stroken at the tactile aesthetics seminar yesterday
  • Everyday objects you enjoy touching — investigating tactile aesthetics
  • Museums Showoff next Thursday — including "Why the very idea of a science museum is just plain silly, but if we’re going to have them they should be less like Harrods and more like a junk yard"
  • Danish postdoc fellowship in art and biosciences
  • Creating life: from alchemy to synthetic biology
  • De udviklingshæmmedes, børnehjemsbørnenes og de sindslidendes historie i perioden 1945-1976
  • Ambient plasticity: aesthetics of the hospital
  • Mannequins in museums — their present use, aesthetic reactions and history
  • Is collecting contemporary historical objects a 'risky business'?
  • Caterina Albano on Fear and Art in the Contemporary World — a good topic for a medical exhibition
  • Hvorfor spørge to kolleger – når du kan spørge 2000?
  • Sandra Dudley is giving a seminar on object-centred work in museums (Copenhagen, Thursday 15 November)
  • Cross-fertilisation between sci comm and STS
  • Putting the magic back into medicine
  • Medicin 2.0: Sociale medier i medicinsk forskning og praksis — møde på Panum, mandag 29. oktober, kl. 14-16
  • Prevention and treatment of obesity — event at Medical Museion, Thursday 18 October at 6.30 pm
  • Min tale ved åbningen af udstillingen "Fedme: hvad er problemet?", den 3. oktober 2012
  • Dekan Ulla Wewers tale ved åbningen af udstillingen "Fedme: hvad er problemet?", den 3. oktober 2012
  • You Need To See This — Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization
  • Poppy's milk so bitter, so sweet
  • Who is (are) anonymous MuseTrain? Is it this EU-Turkey project?
  • At være et museum i særklasse — hvad betyder det?
  • The future of health science communication — the menu version
  • Er de historiske artefakter virkelig på vej ud af Medicinsk Museion?
  • Never attend a conference that extends the deadline of abstract submission
  • Hunger, appetite, and satiation
  • From the body as factory to eating information: A short history of metabolism
  • Nærkontakt med en gentest — af den materielle slags
  • The inability of contextualism to explain disruptions and surprises
  • What would a material history of drug addiction read, look, sound, smell etc. like?
  • Sociale medier og folkesundhedsvidenskabelig forskningskommunikation 2.0
  • Examine first, ask what it is later — comments on David Pantalony's talk at Medical Museion
  • Hvor foregik forskningskommunikation 2.0 egentlig på PCST-konferencen i sidste uge?
  • Deep lacerations, inflicted in the blink of an eye
  • What does a scientist look like?
  • Are museum rooms without social media enhancement really 'stupid'?
  • Biomarkers — an impossible topic for an exhibition?
  • Best of the museum web in 2012
  • What would a list of critical questions about the current financial crisis in the museum sector look like?
  • Attending academic conferences is a waste of time, money and environmental resources — and intellectual energy
  • Artificial insemination
  • April events at Medical Museion: Lucy Lyons, David Pantalony, and Lars von Trier's Epidemic
  • Deadline for nominations for the Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits is May, 1
  • Boredom is unattractive — but maybe nonboredom is worse?
  • Jack the Ripper-kniv
  • Hidden Stories — the biannual European medical museum conference in Berlin, 13-15 September 2012
  • Why is it so hard to move beyond the deficit model?
  • The aesthetics and politics of specimens on display
  • Vores vision
  • In Medias Res: The aesthetics of scientific, technological and medical things
  • Save the human anatomical heritage!
  • Scientific/technological artefacts and nationality
  • How can we dare leave to secure warm, fuzzy email universe and begin taking academic discussions online.
  • Displaying stuff at the nanolevel in museums
  • Hvordan Storify kan bruges i daglig forskningsformidling
  • Heldagsmøde om sprog, sygdom og sundhed i historien
  • The biological and biomedical challenge to the humanities
  • Åbne op for den æstetiske produktionsproces
  • 6229
  • Progress in medical science and technology?
  • Planning our Sensuous Investigation Room for close encounters with material things
  • At the margins of life and death
  • Mundane design vs. fine sci-art: two realms of aesthetic practice in science communication
  • The nice and fuzzy feeling of TED talks
  • MUSE seminar #1: From Material Culture to Material Heritage
  • MUSE-seminarer for alle der er interesserede i forskningskommunikation
  • Skybruddet i juli kostede meget
  • Follow our staff at the ScienceOnline conference in Raleigh on Twitter
  • Museums, materiality and global politics
  • Museum Boerhaave saved until 2016
  • Medical Museion 2011 highlights
  • The Polytechnical Museum in Moscow — a gem for technical museum aficionados
  • To give means to give something of yourself — holiday greetings from Medical Museion
  • Want to work with collections at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London?
  • Anatomical collections as cultural heritage
  • Dialogue about science communication
  • The 'material turn' — why aren't museums and collection curators collaborating more with humanities scholars?
  • The problem of exhibiting pain still hasn't been solved
  • How to exhibit moral change in a museum?
  • Nu må ODM sørge for at formidlingsseminarerne bliver mere brugerdrevne!
  • How do we exhibit globalisation of medical technology?
  • Effects of careerism in biomedicine
  • Æstetik, læring og menneskesyn
  • Narrativity in exhibition making — the current enthusiasm is problematic
  • Advent medicalendar
  • Why it's so good to be a university-owned museum
  • Frosten lægger sig over kulturlandskabet
  • History of science in science museums and science centers
  • Was there science communication in the days before Twitter?
  • What's the role of medical museums in the emerging biosociety?
  • Den embryologiske forfaldsæstetik
  • What is the use of the genre of biography for understanding contemporary biomedicine?
  • Kulturhistorisk vandalisme truer verdensunik embryologisk samling i Lund
  • The exhibition as a cross-disciplinary interface between scientific research and public engagement
  • Narrativity and medicine
  • Who owns the data collected from implanted monitoring devices?
  • ScienceRoll 5 years today
  • Sydsvensk medicinhistorisk billedarkiv
  • A historian of science's dream job
  • Livets Museum åbner snart i Lund
  • Reconstructing scientific experiments for didactic purposes may have unintended side-effects
  • How do containers embody scientific knowledge?
  • Radio-trailer om 'Balance og stofskifte'
  • Is the notion of scientific citizenship elitist?
  • Next Universeum meeting in Trondheim in June 2012
  • The difficult art of short scientific explanations in exhibitions
  • AIDS 30 år — udstilling på Riget
  • It's not the museum visitors' job to know what they want to see
  • The sensuous dimension of scientific and technological objects
  • Collection Impossible: Distributed curatorship and crowd-sourcing as alternatives to centralised collecting
  • Speeches at the opening of the 'Balance and Metabolism' gallery and the 'Genomic Enlightenment' installation
  • The productivity of intellectual enemies
  • Waiting for medical museums to become less apolitical
  • Støtte fra Arbejdsmarkedets Feriefond til udstilling …
  • PS — men udstillingsområderne er fortsat åbne
  • Pga vandskaden kan vi foreløbigt ikke udlåne eller modtage genstande, besvare forespørgsler eller sælge billeder
  • Er det nu så smart at koordinere ansøgninger indenfor museumsforskning?
  • Live-tweeting from Artefacts meeting in Leiden
  • The moral discipline of curatorship
  • The fascinating world of blog spam
  • The reopened National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Springs, Md. — hope it's better this time
  • Public health science communication 2.0 — new blog
  • There's no cure for curiosity
  • Synthetic biology — science, art, design
  • Curating heritage through games?
  • Moral aesthetics and moral constraints in representing and replacing bodies
  • More on best practice in organising academic meetings
  • The jizz of museum exhibitions
  • Anatomical collections as part of the cultural heritage
  • Configuring future scholarly communication — getting into the heads of current undergraduates and graduate students
  • 16th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Berlin, 13-15 September 2012
  • Can you display pain without lesion?
  • Artefacts meeting in Leiden — final programme
  • Mundane design vs. fine sci-art as two realms of aesthetic practice in science communication
  • What's the role of academic museums in today's Europe?
  • European anatomical collections network initiative
  • 'Flotte' æbler og 'spændende' konferencer
  • Greenaway has got it wrong: there is no 'visual illiteracy' — but there is a widespread 'material illiteracy'.
  • Are science and society frenemies? And what, if anything, does this mean for sci-med-tech communication?
  • Public health science communication through social media
  • Tenure track job in history of medicine at Yale
  • The medical history background for the Oslo terrorist action
  • What shall I say about university museums?
  • Summer vacation
  • Next Universeum meeting will take place in Trondheim in 2012
  • Museer og politik
  • History of science blogs and Twitter accounts
  • Care of self and keeping track of one's identity
  • Wet to the bone — saving Medical Museion's collections after the Copenhagen cloudburst
  • 11th annual conference of University Collections and Museums (UMAC)
  • Anatomical and pathological collections in contemporary medical education
  • Collection impossible: distributed curatorship as an alternative to centralised acquisitioning
  • What shall the new medical galleries in London's Science Museum look like?
  • Morbid Anatomy — a satanist blog?
  • Nu går Nordisk netværk for studier i narrativitet og medicin igang
  • Museum objects and poetry
  • Impatient discovery vs. mature understanding — revisiting Ragnar Granit's view of the goal of scientific work
  • Museum Boerhaave is threatened
  • Fluttering brains
  • Want to do short-time (
  • The DIY biotech movement is working up steam
  • Twitter journal club — II
  • Promoting best practice in academic meetings
  • Public communication of science and technology
  • Journal clubs on Twitter
  • Malling-Hansen's Braille writing ball on display
  • Categories and concepts in health, medicine and society
  • Museums on Facebook — making friends, making fans or simply broadcasting?
  • The Museum of Technology in Hemel Hempstead
  • Genomic jewellery — an Illumina BeadChip necklace
  • Conceptualizing, collecting and presenting recent science and technology
  • Madness and museums — collecting and exhibiting the history of psychiatry
  • Analysing museums beyond the national framework
  • New metaphors for sci-tech-med museums
  • Things in culture, culture in things
  • Remembering Horace Judson, author of The Eighth Day of Creation
  • New assistant professor in medical science communication at Medical Museion
  • Internationalisering er meget mere end ICOM-komitteer
  • Our new social web and biomedicine staff member
  • Workshop on the sensuous object (smell and touch, ambience, aesthetic, visual thinking, tacit knowledge, sound and seduction), 29-30 September
  • How to use museum collections in teaching history?
  • What is 'biomedicine'?
  • Museums use social media mostly for marketing reasons and PR
  • Collecting the voices and materials of genomics
  • Another packed programme for a Universeum meeting — when will they ever learn?
  • Forskningsformidling via sociale webmedier forenkler ikke budskabet — tværtimod
  • Why do STS?
  • One-day meeting on 'Curating science', London, 6 May
  • What intellectual and practical approaches should be developed to document and preserve the history of recent science and technology?
  • Martha Fleming on "Museum as Material, Exhibition as Scholarly Publication” at the Danish Royal Academy of Art, Friday 1 April, 1-3 pm.
  • Can someone tell me what "a heuristic device waiting to be filled with meaning" means?
  • Martha Fleming taler om "Museum as Material, Exhibition as Scholarly Publication” på Kunstakademiet på fredag
  • What's actually meant by the "life" and "biography" of new materials?
  • Studies in disposable culture
  • Who shall have the Dibner prize in 2011?
  • Historicisation — a postgrad course in Bergen next August
  • The Picture a Museum Day event yesterday — see Medical Museion's pictures and photographers here
  • What kind of social studies of science publications would convince scientists themselves?
  • The moral economy of science communication
  • Blog on the history of neurology and the neurosciences
  • The material basis of a unified self
  • The order of tangible things at Harvard
  • Companies preparing skeletons for schools in the early post-war period
  • Skal forskere tvinges til at skrive blogposter?
  • Fastelavnskostume á la Penkowa
  • Museum exhibitions between labour and grace
  • Beyond science journalism — the web and new forms of communication power
  • New web technologies for biomedical self-presentation
  • The perfect journal — it's all about rejection
  • The materiality and sensuousness of fat
  • Identity: how little we actually change over time
  • En Leonardo for det 21. århundrede?
  • Are bioart works ever 'finished'?
  • Egyptian prosthetic devices
  • 2010 Medical Blog Awards goes mainly to earlier winners
  • Hvorfor sætter danske videnskabsjournalister mure op for kommentarer?
  • The transhumanist freak show
  • A manifesto for creating science, technology and medicine exhibitions
  • On queer museums
  • Postgrad course on gendered body visualisations
  • Don't make art out of the evolutionary heritage, please!
  • Can you display the anarchistic attitude in science with the help of material and visual objects?
  • Open access = closed access?
  • A back-to-basics manifesto for creating museum exhibitions
  • Vision and touch — a material history of blindness
  • Google Art er som sex på skærmen
  • Pris til bedste fysiologihistoriske artikel til en af vores KU-kollegaer
  • Should museums help us live better lives?
  • Hvad er god videnskabelig praksis for formidling i medierne?
  • Harry Marks
  • Genetik 3.0? Nej, langt fra
  • The museum curator's dream: "Touch tells you what you need to know"
  • Conference hodgepodge — everything 'laboratorial'
  • Nordisk netværk for studier i litteratur og medicin
  • Any experiences with shtyle.fm?
  • Visual representations of professional cultures in biomedicine
  • Medicinsk Museions nye SWAT
  • Nyt netværk for "inventors, thinkers, engineers, geeks, tinkerers, modders, conceptualists, designers, hackers, makers, artists, and all those creating experiences for others"
  • Værktøjskasse for outreach
  • Living your scientific life as if you were a member of an aesthetic movement
  • The life-span of a scientific article
  • 12th annual meeting of the European Academic Heritage Network (Universeum), Padua, 26-29 May
  • Er plastikdukkene ægte eller ej?
  • Ægte lig? Hvor meget "ægte" krop er der egentlig tilbage efter balsameringsmaskinen?
  • We are looking for a new academic member of staff for web-based science communication
  • Vi søger en specialist i webbaseret forskningskommunikation
  • Identity museums
  • Political economy is too important to be left to biomedical scientists
  • Psykiatrihistorie i Deadline i aften
  • Merry Xmas from Medical Museion's anatomical theatre
  • God Jul og Godt Nyt År fra Medicinsk Museions anatomiske teater
  • 'Digital' evolution in two minutes
  • The intensive care unit on display
  • Facebook face images
  • Beware of the Agambians
  • Is digital information material or immaterial?
  • Hvilke farver skal der være på væggene og panelerne i vores tre nyrestaurerede udstillingsrum?
  • Why do we visit anatomical museums: for curiosity or for learning? (or maybe for some other reason?)
  • Public understanding of science 25 years later
  • Fellowships for research on the biomedical science and technology since 1945
  • Heritage & Society
  • Dan Zahavi og følelser
  • Today's museum quote
  • Today's museum policy quote
  • Phase III trail outcomes are more thrilling than the ups and downs of the stock market
  • 23. nordiske medicinhistoriske kongress, Oslo, 25. – 27. maj 2011
  • A new awesome Rosling-visualisation
  • Tacit knowing — manual knowledge in art, science and technology
  • The history of the microplate — a ubiquitous biomedical lab technology
  • Intro to 'The Chemistry of Life' exhibition as a joint science and art exhibition (beta version)
  • Piotr Piotrowski on 'the critical museum'
  • What metaphors are we molecularising by?
  • Milena Penkowa-sagen
  • Participatory media aren't as new as we sometimes believe
  • Canned unicorn meat
  • The early history of drug abuse in Denmark
  • The Seven Sisters: Subgenres of bioi of contemporary life scientists
  • New Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen opens on 2 December
  • Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies åbner torsdag den 2 december kl. 15
  • Wikipedia
  • Medical Museion on the (social) web
  • Forskningssamarbejder som organisatoriske monstre
  • Seminar om syntetisk biologi
  • UNIVERSEUM has been established as a formal association for the preservation of the European academic heritage
  • Bio-engineering in museums
  • Det hvide snit
  • Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskabs Studenterpris 2010
  • Malaria parasite as glass sculpture
  • Negotiating the aims, methods and results of ageing research
  • Aldringsforskning som forhandling
  • Prosthetic arms, lung capacity and learning to see — Medical Museion in Copenhagen Culture Night
  • Resumé of the conference "Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums".
  • Metaphor and simile in representations of genetics in the media
  • Why are medical scientists so unplayful?
  • 'An Ageing World' — a science-design installation about global demography
  • XVIVO's 'Powering the Cell: Mitochondria' — the magic of 'The Inner Life of the Cell' has evaporated
  • Is the challenge of botanical poetry lost forever in Copenhagen?
  • The Split+Splice exhibition at Medical Museion receives the Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2010
  • Historical medical artefacts online
  • Didactics is a death kiss to museums
  • Conference-tweeting — pros and cons
  • When will they ever learn …
  • Human remains in museums — are museum curators the principal campaigners against them?
  • WeltWissen
  • Lobotomi af åndssvage
  • Om depression
  • Tweets from the conference on contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums
  • Den 23. medicinhistoriske kongress, Oslo 25-27 maj 2011
  • JoVE publishes its 500th video-article
  • Nyt center for medicinske videnskabs- og teknologistudier ved Københavns Universitet
  • David Goodsell's cell-art
  • Museums as public dormitories where all risks are controlled
  • Sociale webmedier, videnskabs-, medicin- og teknologihistorie
  • Kulturklik — it's so much yesterday — om igen!
  • Testosteron — det stof, mænd er gjort af?
  • Blogging about history of science and medicine
  • Horror podcast and medical theatre tours around Medical Museion during the '1700s — Globalization, Gossip and Greed' festival, Copenhagen
  • Program for the conference 'Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums', Copenhagen 16-18 September
  • Metaphors that both scientists and artists draw on
  • Beyond the magic bullet: Reframing the history of antibiotics
  • On bloggership and blogademia — is scholarly blogging scholarship?
  • Post #1400
  • Handbook for the material turn
  • Venter's dismissal of the medical implications of genomics
  • A kind of medical 'museum' I have quite mixed feelings about
  • Is slow attention possible on the web?
  • Biography of a collection or a collector?
  • The dangers of oversharing
  • Ken Arnold visiting professor in medical science communication and museology at Medical Museion
  • The aesthetics of disgust
  • I miss people who once needed no electronics (iphone)
  • The aesthetics of healthy aging
  • The last cathedrals built for a dying medium
  • Can you 'inhapt' an object (as a haptic alternative to 'inspect')?
  • Would European museums be able to co-operate around the preservation of the contemporary scientific, technological and medical heritage?
  • Evocative stories about evocative objects: Sherry Turkle's Evocative Objects, Falling for Science and The Inner History of Devices
  • Creating a distributed curatorial expertise for acquisitioning the contemporary medical heritage
  • Why bother? So what?
  • Medical history and the medical humanities between two reductionisms
  • Which are the most unnecessary science, tech and medical museums in the world?
  • Philosophical reflection on medical technology in museums has got a new publication outlet
  • Om den æstetiske formidlingsform — sanser og poetisk oplevelse på Medicinsk Museion
  • Scientometrics — a contemporary Sword of Damocles hanging over biomedicine
  • Does matter matter?
  • Workshop 'Contemporary biomedical science and medical technology as a challenge to museums' — preliminary programme
  • Acquisitioning is the life-blood of museums
  • Does the hyperlink destroy our ability to focus on the text?
  • Bioephemera is (temporarily?) closing down
  • Science as a material and sensuous world vs. history of science as a textual and disembodied world
  • Craig Venter's new step towards synthetic life
  • Medical Museum Competition
  • Postdoc project for the study of the production of images of the interior of the human body on the cellular level
  • Medical photographer at Medical Museion
  • Facebook — just another uncool site
  • University heritage is back
  • The future of philosophy of science
  • The existential importance of feeling stupid
  • Unruly democracy: Science blogs and the public sphere
  • Petition against the closure of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL
  • Containers that actively interfere with the biomedical research process
  • The historiography of the interaction between science and medical practice — conflict or coop?
  • Museums and social media
  • Just had a digital detox week
  • The rising star of the brain
  • Can a university museum also be a science communication unit?
  • Want to renew Wellcome Library's outreach activities, web presence etc.?
  • The conservatism of science journalism
  • The future of medical history — the swansong conference of the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine
  • More on the closing of the Centre for the History of Medicine
  • Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine is closing down
  • Science Museum’s new history of medicine website _Brought to Life_
  • Human remains collection management as a 'grey zone' in ICOM's Code of Ethics
  • The aesthetics of derelict medical instruments and devices
  • To disconnect from the internet is the new 'distinction'
  • Reading artefacts — do we really read them?
  • The death of an exhibition — but no animals were harmed in the process
  • 3D objects have 'an immense potential for the communication of science'. Is this true? And if so, why?
  • Congress for curious people
  • Another natural history museum plays the art card to bring an adult audience into the museum
  • Museum identity — are we a medical conservatory?
  • Open the sluice gates for contemporary collecting!
  • Illness in context — textual interpretations of illness
  • New acquisitions — no thank you, or yes please?
  • How shall science, technology, and medicine museums handle the problem of new acquisitions?
  • Are science museums and science centers taming the thrill of science by imposing their museological agendas?
  • Using refurbishment as an occasion for museums to rethink their outreach
  • Is this the death of the science/medical museum collections as we know them?
  • You are more likely to be right if you are somebody who shows a little doubt about something
  • Contemporary biomedical science and medical technology as a challenge to museums
  • Idiosyncracy as a museological virtue
  • Is the role of museums to promote 'social harmony'?
  • Fremtidens museum
  • Do museums need big web sites to be visible?
  • How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved?
  • Embed a YouTube video into your powerpoint slides
  • 1-2 Associate (Assistant) Professors in Medical Science Communication and/or Medical Science Heritage Production
  • Alter-realism — dispense with the sci- and bioart gallery and make scientific reality our experimentation lab
  • The participatory museum
  • Peculiar (malicious?) anonymous vanity blogranking 'service'
  • Bios lingo
  • Saving the 'papers' of 21st century science for future historians
  • Is academic job application attachments on YouTube the new trend?
  • When is research a waste of time?
  • Medicine 2.0 in a historical perspective
  • Hybrids between science, visual art, poetry and theatre
  • Memoirs about disability
  • Keeping the biomedical heritage is all about the preservation of plastic
  • Museerne i fremtidens kulturelle landskab — en undersøgelse
  • Moulage, moulage
  • Contemporary bodies — new technologies, new collections
  • Virtual suicide — reclaim your real life
  • Citizen science is maturing — first scientific paper from Galaxy Zoo 2
  • Opening talk — 'Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Approach'
  • New exhibition: 'Healthy Aging: A Lifespan Approach' (pics from the opening)
  • Webinar on SARS: Learning from an epidemic of fear
  • Research fellowships at Science Museum
  • Split + Splice as a mirror structure between laboratory and museum
  • The contemporary history of peptic ulcer
  • Kan man vaccinere kommunikationsafdelinger mod manglende kreativitet?
  • Instruments on display
  • Dittrick Museum's blog
  • Using Twitter as training ground for exhibition curators
  • Hanging Liv Carlé Mortensen's collages for the 'Healthy Aging' show
  • Low budget gift wrapping ribbon model of the GPCR receptor
  • Repomen — a fictional study in organ 'circulation'
  • Nordic medical history meeting, 2011
  • What is science communication for in a postindustrial society?
  • Næste nordiske medicinhistoriske møde i Oslo, maj 2011
  • The theme for the next 'Artefacts' meeting is 'Knowledge on the Move'
  • Who am I online? Personal identity construction on the web
  • Death in the digital age
  • Participative medical art practice — new postdoc project at Medical Museion
  • Navn på KU's nye intranet — hvad med Closed Access?
  • Our new exhibition — on 'Healthy Aging' — opens on Monday 8 February
  • The annual Universeum meeting on university heritage now and in the future looks a little dull
  • First medical film symposium — screening and academic discussions
  • Boswell's new gospel of science is an embarassing experience
  • Medical history objects — art objects
  • What kind of staff do small museums need?
  • Are science centers and science museums converging?
  • Consuming Bodies: The human body in the light of science
  • Which terms do you use for 'first-person accounts' written by scientists and medical doctors?
  • 'Oral history' on its way to insignificance? — isn't 'online history' much more relevant for the interpretation of the contemporary world?
  • Is the genre of conference proceedings a dying one?
  • Biomedicine on Display takes a short holiday break
  • Biomedical molecules as jewelry
  • Is snowstorm a good excuse for closing a medical museum?
  • Look out for the next 'Science and the Public' conference, July 2010.
  • Why write a Masters thesis when you can buy one
  • Medicinhistorikerens magt
  • Scientists living transnational lives
  • Senior life scientists believe science communication skills are more important than ethical skills
  • Springer's so called 'open choice option for open access'
  • New conference formats for historians of science, technology and medicine
  • Have you ever seen a molecule? Art, science and visual communication
  • Post mortem human remains revisited
  • International konference om biomedicinsk videnskab og teknologi som en radikal udfordring for museumsverden. København 16. – 19. september 2010
  • Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums — Copenhagen, 16-18 September 2010
  • New list for university museums and collections
  • Against Google — I want to be surprised! Find the unexpected, detect what I never anticipated.
  • The recent history of medical technology — piecing it together from memoirs and reminiscences
  • Way too neat lab bench image gives a distorted impression of lab life
  • En hjerne bliver snittet — "lige nu!", som de siger i nyhedsudsendelserne
  • Slicing the brain — online, in real time
  • The historical relation between human enhancement and succesful ageing — new postgraduate project here at Medical Museion
  • Ja, museerne skal ud til folket — men pas på det ikke ender i ren oplevelsesøkonomi
  • Do we want to engage in topical and timely exhibitions?
  • Museet erhverver unik samling af væskedrivende midler
  • Museomics
  • Is biomedicine making the body invisible and immaterial — and uncollectable?
  • Curatorial and artistic techniques in investigating and presenting (biomedical) bodies
  • Brug og misbrug af medicinhistorie (og anden videnskabshistorie)
  • Museums as graveyards for dead objects (rather than echo rooms for talking objects?)
  • Dansk Medicinsk-historisk Selskabs Studenterpris 2009
  • A private museum of historical medical artefacts on the web
  • Poem about Medical Museion's collections
  • An 'unknown' Norwegian dentistry collection celebrates its 125th birthday
  • Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums
  • Mellem meningskultur og nærværseffekter: biomedicinens objekter som museal udfordring
  • Biomedical visualisation and society
  • Beyond text — memories, monuments, machines and madeleines
  • Hvordan kan erhvervslivet inddrages i museum 2.0?
  • Meeting on university collections and their integration into everyday uni life
  • What does 'medical progress' mean? A philosophical perspective
  • The culture of curiosity (or: keep an eye on OBSERVATORY)
  • Popular dissection pics
  • Scientific instruments in the history and philosophy of (medical) science
  • What's a university museum?
  • Contested categories — life sciences in society
  • Want to be a medical museum director in Glasgow?
  • The participatory medical museum — planning for the next three years
  • Twue them!
  • Congrats to the Wellcome Library staff …
  • Nina Simon (museum 2.0) til seminar på Medicinsk Museion, torsdag 29. oktober
  • Nina Simon/museum 2.0 at Medical Museion tomorrow
  • Pill camera live show
  • Medicine, archives and researching lives
  • The menstrual cycle on display
  • Medical museums and the Janus-faced future of synthetic biology
  • The materiality of scientific objects
  • The body on display
  • Steampunk, always steampunk
  • Learning about representing the life sciences from biotech upstarts
  • Blogger after lunch
  • The Copenhagen Night of Culture
  • Yet another postdoc wanted for research into the history of NIH
  • Nysseligt, men …
  • Publications from the 'Biomedicine on Display' project
  • Det hvide snit på P1
  • The slow museum
  • Is the physical announcement board a threatened academic species?
  • Nanotech, health and longevity — who makes the predictions?
  • A protein sculpture in the making
  • Cell image and video library gets NIH stimulus grant
  • On the boundary of visual and performative arts and biomedicine
  • Vi søger en publikumsmedarbejder …
  • Waiting for the 2009 Celldance winners
  • Assembling bodies
  • Protein sculptures
  • Digestive history
  • The colours of biomedical lab equipment
  • We're apparently lagging behind on the social web media side
  • Sk-interfaces in extended continuation — now in Luxembourg
  • Uwe Max Jensen misforstår ENDO-ECTO
  • Video-based methods in science and technology studies
  • Dentist's clinic
  • The colour of medicine — green!
  • The blog vanity fair
  • Surgical heritage manager in Edinburgh
  • Some science communication scholars believe in gvmt-sponsored science news and evidently have not heard about museums
  • Significant medical objects – II
  • 'Virtue, Vice, and Contraband: A History of Contraception in America'
  • 100 years with pH
  • Torture spam
  • Proteiner — kultur og eksistens
  • The tendency towards event culture in contemporary museums
  • Explaining Split+Splice on Danish TV
  • Stories between art and science — and the history of the ribbon diagram of protein structure
  • Dekan Ulla Wewers tale ved åbningen af 'Primary Substances'
  • Phillip Warnell will swallow a pill camera in Copenhagen on Sunday
  • Medical steampunk
  • Blogs for innovative academics
  • Er vores seneste udstilling et eksempel på Steampunk?
  • Are we on the edge of a robot revolution in medicine?
  • New exhibition — 'Primary Substances: Treasures from the history of protein research'
  • Åbning af udstillingen 'Primary Substances: Treasures from the history of protein research', fredag den 4. september kl. 14
  • Ny udstilling om proteinforskning
  • The history of hypochondria as mediated by artists, writers and philosophers
  • Is there a 'neuroscientific turn' in the humanities and social sciences?
  • Beyond postmodern bioart?
  • Significant medical objects
  • Endoscopic art performance
  • Artefacts meeting at Science Museum, 20-22 September
  • Archives for contemporary science at risk
  • Do Europeans not produce any interesting medical technologies?
  • Sci-med-tech museum gang
  • A new history of surgery exhibition (in Dundee)
  • "Slow looking, like slow cooking, may yet become the new radical chic"
  • Use the current lingua franca, please
  • Split + Splice as web exhibition
  • Science exhibitions: curation, design and communication
  • Organ donors – Chinese edition
  • postdoc/PhD position: Communicative barriers between biomedical research and everyday health care in a museum context
  • Why are hospitals associated with the colour green?
  • Udstilling set fra et designprofessionel udgangspunkt
  • More on small animal guillotines — an invisible practice
  • Laboratory guillotines — rules and procedures for the use of commercial small animal euthanasia machines
  • Medical archives and collections in a design history perspective
  • Visible and invisible radiation
  • 15th congress of European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences in Copenhagen, September 2010
  • From the opening of Split and Splice …
  • Useful spam
  • Sublim biomedicinsk selviscenesættelse
  • Eye Catchers and Swagger Images — a new exhibition about scientific posters
  • Biomedicine on Display ranked as #7 museum blog in the world
  • Split and Splice: Fragments From the Age of Biomedicine — new exhibition at Medical Museion
  • Interest in book and journal marginalia grows as Google and publishers puts books and journals online
  • Diseases as real entities or nominalist constructs?
  • Dissection as a rite-of-passage 100 years ago — what do medical students do now?
  • Good old history of science is big news for BBC
  • Universities and their museums
  • The laboratory as an exhibition venue
  • The morbid Wunderkammer
  • Genomic art is so much last year
  • Pas på med kemi …
  • Sartoblot II-S — the whereabouts
  • Fewer postings for a while — tendonitis, it's pretty painful
  • How to depict life itself?
  • Næste stop: Blog for Læger
  • Are there any ethical reasons not to display forensic medical specimens on-line?
  • Revulsive abortion instrument website
  • The sandpit/sandbox concept — is it compatible with museum 2.0?
  • The perfect job for a person interested in web outreach of biomedicine
  • A curator's nightmare
  • Medical Museion puts all of its collections on Twitter
  • Putting our image archive on Flickr?
  • Wikipedia protects the 'Genetics' article, but not the 'Medicine' article
  • Do social scientists dream about biomedical futures? Or do they have nightmares only?
  • Observing the others, watching over oneself
  • Ideen om en humanistisk lægevidenskab er tautologisk
  • Human-animal relationship — opportunity for research at the PhD-level
  • Knowledge, ethics and representations of medicine and health (CFP)
  • Morbid Anatomy enters the Observatory
  • A personal turn in 'biomedical studies'?
  • Visualizations of viruses – III
  • Museum om mennesket i sundhed og sygdom
  • Ansøgning om at udvide og videreudvikle Medicinsk Museion
  • FDA approves Salmonella
  • Medicine and healthcare: history and context
  • Viruses and their visualizations
  • Dreamjob for a person interested in research based medical history outreach
  • The research physician
  • Collecting and gathering as world-making and claim-staking
  • Open source object management
  • Minders of the memory — with delayed gratification
  • Singing medical songs
  • Biodigital lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of technoscience
  • Science Museum's new history of medicine website
  • Grant application for developing and expanding Medical Museion
  • Visualization of pharmaceutical industry activity
  • Drugs and chronic illness
  • Exhibition on the history of protein research — call for artefacts
  • Hjælp til udstilling om proteinforskningens historie
  • A crush on pipettes
  • Wellcome medical history films
  • Hvad er et kunstobjekt?
  • Shortness
  • History of medicine on video — training session and workshop
  • Om Colin Rennies glasskulptur
  • Rete — mailing list for the history of scientific instruments
  • WellSphere blog copyright scam
  • 20th century history of biomedicine at UCL
  • European university museum meeting
  • Best museum exhibition involving medical technology and medical engineering
  • Smallpox virus glass sculpture — the problem of use of pseudocolours in public engagement with science
  • New digitalizing signals from the Smithsonian
  • 'Laboratory Life' by Suzanne Anker in Berlin
  • Teaching at Medical Museion
  • Museum blogger defects to Twitter — please come back!
  • Museum exhibition comments on blog post
  • What's so sympathetic about sympathy?
  • Assembling a glass sculpture of ATP-synthase by Colin Rennie
  • Til den søde tand
  • Sweet gift basket for my teeth
  • A cure for the common cold?
  • Biomedical memoirs
  • The use of museum objects in teaching
  • Biotech is red, blue, white and green — now also in black — what about magenta?
  • Biomedical memory
  • Nanoscale science under investigation: a new issue of Spontaneous Generations
  • A medical revolution?
  • The great existential question …
  • When comes the first medical history e-book?
  • The exhaustion machine
  • Digital lives — not yet 2.0, but maybe soon
  • The Smithsonian toward a Smithsonian 2.0
  • Is dress and conference code a yardstick for future success of scholarly and scientific fields?
  • Medical knowledge and medical practice in the 20th century
  • The blurred distinction between research objects and museum artefacts in a university collection context
  • Smart spam for questionable acai berry health products
  • Preannouncement for Artefacts meeting at Science Museum in September
  • Er Design4Science simpel nok?
  • Phillip Warnell's current art/research work at Medical Museion
  • Design og videnskab
  • Om forskerblogs
  • Museum visitor feedback video system
  • Kroppen/Usynlig Verden (The Body/Invisible World) opens next Friday at the Norwegian Technical Museum
  • Medical Museion on search-cube
  • Our new muscle man
  • Reflections on science and medical collections in universities
  • The Design4Science poster
  • More design for science
  • Design4Science at Medical Museion
  • History of the neurosciences
  • Kickbee — what's the point?
  • The relation between amateur and professional medical collectors
  • Public engagement with life extension (PhD studentships)
  • Dimser til den kommende butik
  • New Wikipedia initiative should be a must for humanities journals too
  • Board gaming for medical and public health education
  • Medicine on display — British Medical Journal on YouTube
  • Being surprised instead of googling in advance
  • Happy holidays
  • Den ubesmittet undfangede vingummibamse
  • Emotions in science — reinventing the wheel
  • Museumsudstillinger i 'perpetual beta'
  • Material Beliefs
  • Dismantling Oldetopia
  • The medical avatar may well be a way to introduce the future to you
  • Postgrad course on the recent history of power, policies and health
  • The history of biomedicine/biotech and economic policy
  • History of Genetics Day, Norwich 2009
  • Further training opportunity for health communication bloggers
  • Global developments and local specificities in the history of medicine and health
  • From wax moulages to dough moulages
  • Medical soundscape
  • Impressions from Deutsches Museum (2) — live research in the museum
  • A group of Wellcome Library staff members
  • Artifact or artefact?
  • Exhibition-making behind the scene
  • Epidemiology as a practice of collecting
  • Visualization in biomedicine — last issue of Die Gegenwort
  • Impressions from Deutsches Museum (1)
  • Next European university museum meeting in Toulouse, June 2009
  • History of medicine PhD scholarships in London, 2009-2011
  • The journal Performance Research invites contributions to thematic issue about the stretching, rendering and formation of the decentred, displaced, denatured or amalgamated body
  • Conference give-aways as medical ephemera
  • New journal for museum and collection scholars
  • Galaxy Zoo + Obama campaign = a medical heritage curatorial movement?
  • 1001 blog posts later — almost four years old
  • Today is World Philosophy Day: Should we kill healthy people for their organs?
  • The hidden meaning in a microarray image
  • Museum ethics
  • Why do we blog and other important questions (reply to Martin Fenner, Nature Networks)
  • Curating medical artifacts with an eye to the future
  • Museums and biographies
  • Digestive system house (CasAnus)
  • Coffee and the body
  • Next SymbioticA Biotech Art workshop in Stavanger, Norway, 18-21 November
  • The presence of biomedical identity trumps mundane identity in the night hours
  • Baltic-Nordic network for medical museums
  • Useful list of medical history museums worldwide
  • A rebuilt museumblogs.org — please save the archive!
  • The recent history of personal genome services — next week is deCoDEme's and 23andMe's 1st year birthdays
  • History of robotics — in medical museum exhibitions etc. (CFP)
  • Is 'Biomedicine on Display' a metamedical object?
  • Museological empiricism — impressions from the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow
  • Using imaging technology to buy shoes — the 'Schucoskop'
  • Our museum guest-book — a source for romantic encounters
  • Want to spend some research time in the collections of the Science Museum?
  • Science and the public: uncertain pasts, presents and futures
  • Auctioning imaging diagnostics — another step in the marketization of medicine
  • An art historian's concern with high-tech baby making
  • Musik fra det indre øre
  • Music from the inner ear
  • Material worlds (Leicester, 15-17 December) — draft programme
  • Philosophy of history vs. museum tangibles and specifics
  • The recent history of evidence-based medicine
  • Hall of Shame — the most fraudulent, vile, depraved, despicable, base, evil, wretched and slimy scientists of all times
  • NLM's public health exhibition: 'Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health'
  • Science partying
  • A banner — at last
  • Science blogging — and the power, beauty and fragility of science
  • Body + art + disease (LA 6 November)
  • Neuroimaging in the courtroom — can we blame our brains? (Cambridge, 21 October)
  • Social and biosciences — a critical collaboration (Lancaster 11-12 December)
  • Wet specimens, choir singing and lung testing at Medical Museion during Copenhagen Night of Culture
  • Biomedical identity in a tattoo
  • Exhibitions shall be argumentative and seductive!
  • Collecting medical artefacts as a public-private enterprise
  • 'A Biometric Tale' showing at the Imagine Science Film Festival next week
  • Science dancing as science communication
  • Medical theme restaurant Hospitalis in Riga, Latvia
  • A true 'biomedicine-on-display' Nobel prize
  • Can historians trust scientists as sources for auto/biographical stories?
  • More history and philosophy of science journal editors join the protest against European Science Foundation's journal rating policy
  • Has the emergence of the life sciences reconfigured C. P. Snow's two-cultures thesis?
  • Hvorfor fik Robert Gallo ikke årets Nobelpris?
  • Why didn't the Nobel Assembly give the prize to Gallo?
  • Moving beyond recognition — how to make sense of recent medical artefacts?
  • Art, science and material objects
  • Online spaces that escape the digital wall of the offical museum website
  • Medical museum for kids
  • The Kircher connection: Jacob Kirkegaard's 'Labyrinthitis' at the Museum of Jurassic Technology
  • Public engagement with autopsy — the ultimate surgery
  • Blog block
  • Visit Medical Museion during the Night of Culture in Copenhagen, 10 October
  • Biomedical identity vs. mundane personal identity — an anecdotal observation of neonatal surveillance
  • Guess the 2008 Nobel Prize awards
  • Free from sponsored blogging
  • Are science, technology and medicine studies hyperprofessionalised?
  • Writing the history of Karolinska Institute, 1810-2010
  • Examining the medical blogosegment
  • Geographies of technoscience — an online reader
  • Lennart Nilsson Award for virtual autopsy techniques
  • The geography of the medical heritage — a touch of history in the clinic
  • Science blogging vs. institutionally based science communication
  • Metaphors for proteins and proteomics
  • The making of a medical videographer — autobiography as a 'care of self'-genre
  • Curatorial research doctoral studentship in Leeds for project about 19C midwifery instruments
  • Evaluation report from Medical Museion International Advisory Board
  • Science communication and personal presence
  • Please, someone, put together a website about bars, cafés and restaurants with medical motifs
  • In our series of awesome MRI scanners …
  • Biomedical autobiographies
  • Video publications will be indexed in MEDLINE/Pubmed
  • There are curators — and then there are biocurators
  • Biotech exhibitions between fascination / fetischism and resignation / hostility
  • Transforming dead bodies into scientific and artistic objects
  • Museum exhibitions as products and generators of scholarship
  • Biomedical images online for exhibition purposes
  • Ideas for a home-made pathological museum
  • Physics meets biology: Perspectives from philosophy, history and science (Edinburgh, 18-20 November)
  • How often do we think of exhibitions in terms of curatorial intention?
  • Blog recommendations: In the Pipeline, Medgadget, Relevant History, Bioephemera and bbgm (Arte y Pico chain-blog)
  • The bottomless pit of confusion that is the biomedical material heritage
  • Science as a craft
  • Spaghetti, medical object, or new artwork by Damien Hirst?
  • Less frequent posting in August — we are busy writing about curating biomedicine
  • Evolution Haute Couture: Art and science in the post-biological age — on exhibit in Kaliningrad from today
  • A spinning CT scanner as a cool museum artefact
  • The participatory museum — what's a medical museum 2.0 like?
  • What does 'display' actually mean?
  • Science blogging 2008 in London — for career building and public engagement with science
  • How some museum donors ignore scholarship, marginalise curators and strive for mediocrity
  • Are you interested in human remains? Then this could be your path to a dream job
  • Group image of the History of Biomedical Research Interest Group
  • University museums and the community (Manchester 16-20 September) now open for registration
  • Science blogging, science communication and the multitude
  • How to engage the public in biomedicine through the arts?
  • Human remains: from anatomical collections to objects of worship
  • What is artscience? And how can it support creativity and innovation?
  • All 883 health and medicine blogs on display in one image (playing with Wordle – part 3)
  • Biomedical animation movies and biomolecularmindedness — selling new technologies to the public (but they really need to do something about those creepy sound tracks)
  • No animals were harmed in the making of this website
  • Cloud of top 100 health and medicine blog names
  • Somatechnics — the technologisation of bodies and selves (Sydney, April 2009)
  • Medical Humanities (the journal) wants manuscripts
  • Sleep DNA — the 'personalized' buzz has reached the mattress industry
  • 'The Contentious Museum' conference in Aberdeen in November promises to become a pretty cautious affair
  • I love pipetting — how about you? Eppendorf on YouTube
  • Love at a sniff — come on, ever heard about culture?
  • Profiles in Science: both updated and outmoded — a review of National Library of Medicine's website
  • Calling on a million minds — the metaphorical dimension
  • Anatomical models in scientific and cultural context
  • What's a 'liquid image'? Find out at the "Gazing into the 21st century: against 'Analpha-BILD-ismus'"–conference on images in art, science and popular culture, Göttweig, 16-18 October
  • Guide dogs for the blind, okay — but what about ventilation dogs for the respiratory impaired?
  • Humanities journals under threat from the European research bureaucracy (ERIH)
  • Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links
  • Public health on public display
  • Genetics, normality and democracy — a seminar series in Lund in the autumn
  • New web toy — Wordle
  • Smoking is feminine and chic — Swetlana Heger’s 'Smoke (Liberté Toujours)' in Kalmar’s new art museum
  • Conference on the politics of the life sciences (biopolitics, biocitizenship, etc.)
  • David Edwards' vision for Le Laboratorie (‘Artscience’ in Paris — part 2)
  • Le Laboratoire – art and science in Paris
  • Yet another argument for bringing art into science and medical museums (David Edwards's Artscience, 2008)
  • Art is smart, art is chic, art is sophisticated (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 7)
  • Art and scientific citizenship (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 6)
  • Books for the summer vacation
  • Art as a cross-disciplinary integrator (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 5)
  • Craig Venter’s A Life Decoded – a captivating read for adult boys (and for historians of the contemporary life sciences)
  • Art and the biomedical invisibles (Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 4)
  • Once aesthetically corrupted, always corrupted (Why do museums want bring art and science together – part 3)
  • Why do museums want to bring art and science together? — part 2
  • Why do museums want to bring art and science together?
  • Why do you read Biomedicine on Display? And how can we make it better?
  • Manufactured animals in history — discourses of health and welfare
  • The Comfort of Things — an inquiry into unique singularities outside social notions of identity
  • The near-haptic quality of a heart animation
  • The burning cigarette lungs
  • Two postdoc positions in science and technology studies in Oxford
  • Strategic research or a dash of anarchy
  • Neurodegenerative brain diseases on YouTube display — the formation of biocitizenship through the participatory web
  • Making and sharing video tutorials
  • Is building a protocell to model early life on earth a topic for medical research?
  • Visual mediation and haptic immediacy: watching ultrasound scanning images vs. touching with the naked hand
  • Microarrays on museum display
  • Refrigerated drive-in virus sample delivery box carrying an anti-science-food-industry micro protest art installation.
  • Biomedicine as street poster announcement
  • Biomedical clip art — custom shapes for display
  • Associate/full professorship in history of medicine in Oslo announced
  • Is there a special beauty in science tied to the making of new things, new materials, new smells, new colours?
  • Recent biomedicine and vitality
  • Rethinking representational practices in contemporary art and modern life sciences
  • Synapse for art-science-technology collaborations
  • Exhibition on 20th century anaesthesiology and intensive care at the Euroanaesthesia 2008 meeting
  • The age of anxiety: A history of America’s turbulent affair with tranquilizers
  • Publications from the 'Biomedicine on Display' project, 2005-2008
  • The history of personalized medicine
  • Cybernetic heritage?
  • The aesthetics of biomedical desktop images is a much under-researched area of visual culture studies.
  • Meeting our Advisory Board
  • Heritage and wellbeing
  • Travelling exhibitions and the experience economy
  • Ego-documents in biomedicine
  • Multipurpose objects become specific medical objects through their use
  • 'Science as Autobiography' lost in translation — 免疫学の巨人イェルネ
  • What makes these things medical objects?
  • Medicoprisen 2008 (The Annual Award of the Danish Medical Industry Organisation) to Medical Museion
  • Anatomical Theatre — the hanging makes all the difference
  • Tools of the surgical trade — the visual materiality of instruments
  • Are there any microarray tattoos out there in the skin world?
  • Killing off a piece of bioart
  • Three reflections on the upcoming synthetic life conference in Roskilde
  • Synthetic life — is it possible? what's the impact?
  • Reiner Matysik's giant artificial organism show opens in Bonn today
  • Pharma lab chemical compound bottles as designer's objects for collecting
  • Is the microarray replacing DNA as the icon for biomedicine and the life sciences?
  • Natasha Demkina (The Girl with X-Ray Eyes) filmed by Phillip Warnell
  • Buttons for biomedicine
  • Biomedicine on display — via the participatory web
  • MoMA online exhibition of design, science and art
  • Auto-Bio-Phagies — a blind alley for those who want to revisit the historical subject
  • Avoid boring Watson
  • Taming microarrays
  • European Science Foundation and Kafka
  • Beware of the digital museum — keyboards harbour harmful bacteria
  • There are bodies everywhere …
  • REAL instruments, please, not just images!
  • Medical Museion on Swedish TV – Part 4
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  • Medical Museion on Swedish TV – part 3
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