Biomedicine in museums

Apropos our own small but rich exhibition about sex and society: a museum of abortion and contraception (Museum für Verhütung und Schwangerschaftsabbruch) is opening in Vienna, Austria in May. Read more about it on this website in German, or on Jim Edmonson’s website. A test version of their website can be found here.

If you want to keep an eye on what goes on in history of (recent) biomedicine in Germany — and in German history of science, technology and medicine generally — the on-line directory of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaften und Technik is the place to look, see http://www.dggmnt.de/umfrage/index.html.
(thanks to Sybilla Nikolow)

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.

Hermed baggrundsmateriale til Mortens og Mette Kias seminaroplæg tirsdag den 18. april. De skriver “De forskellige genstandsforslag, illustrationsforslag o.a. i synopsen skal opfattes som eksempler, gode idéer, indfald i en god og helt ufærdig blanding”.

Hans Buhl, Morten Arnika Skydsgaard, Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
Menneske og maskine
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Speaking about possible social, cultural and political contexts of recent biomedicine and biotech — Slavoj Zizek has again provided some analytical ammunition!
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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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Jeg besøgte det medicinhistoriske museum i Barcelona i onsdags. Det er et fondsejet museum der er tilknyttet det kirurgiske selskab, et hyggeligt lille sted, der har til huse i en flot 1800-talsvilla …

… på en sidegade i Eixemple-kvarteret. Huset er skønt, med mange smukke indretningsdetaljer … Read More

Her er et manuskript til et temanummer om naturvidenskabelig kanon til tidskriften BioZoom, vol. 9, nr 1, april 2006. Synspunkter modtages gerne: min dead-line er lørdag den 25. marts(25. marts: er sendt ind med nogle mindre rettelser, tak Sniff!):
Se publiceret version …

Historikere ved Princeton University har i arkiverne fundet det endelige bevis på at allerede Einstein var en stærk tilhænger af Museion-konceptet:
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Marta de Menezes, Nuclear Family (2004)
(a rendition of gene array analysis, see more of Marta de Menesez’ work here)
And here’s a short resumé of ‘The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices’ workshop at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University last Wednesday, a meeting which focused on gene arrays as scientific, museum and art objects:
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