Biomedicine in museums

Den här essän skrevs som bidrag till konferensen “Medicinhistoria idag” (se annonce här), som hölls på Nobelmuseet i Stockholm den 22 august 2005. Konferensens målsättning var att “inventera och diskutera var svensk medicinhistorisk forskning står idag och vart den är på väg” (not 1) och ingick i den inledande sessionen om “Medicinhistoriens historia”, tillsammans med Karin Johannissons och Roger Qvarsells inlägg. Den kommer att publiceras i museets skriftserie, Nobel Museum Occasional Papers
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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science announces two postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the Research Network „History of Scientific Objects“. (see also former post of 9 December)
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Re. earlier posts on this blog about human remains, I just found out that ebay.com has a policy about handling human remains:
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Call for papers for Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 1-2 April, 2006. For details, see Philosophy of Biology blog, 12 Dec. 2005.

Det har lige kommet rapporter om at også Alf læser årsskriftet:

Det burde vel få konsekvenser for udformingen af 2006-udgaven 🙂

Max Planck Research Network on History of Scientific Objects Seminar comes to Copenhagen 9 -11 May, 2006. Here’s the announcement for the whole European tour:

With its Wandering Seminar on Scientific Objects the Max Planck Research Network establishes a new form of international cooperation. The principal aim of this project is to provide junior scholars of the history of science with first hand information about the latest developments in the field of material culture of science. Participants will have the opportunity to visit and work with rare collections Europe-wide. Museums will present themselves as sites for research and working place for historians of science.
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EASST Conference “Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces”, 23-26 August, 2006, University of Lausanne. Paper and session proposals will now be accepted up to the new deadline of January 16th, 2006 Session proposals are provisionally published on the conference website ( see “what’s new”). Send your session proposal as soon as possible to easst2006@unil.ch
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EAMHMS (European Association of the Museums of the History of the Medical Sciences) is holding its 13th congress in Riga, Latvia, 23-27 August 2006. The congress theme is ‘Medical museums and disability’. The Paul Stradin Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga is hosting the meeting. Read more here.

(Oplægget blev oprindeligt skrevet den 21. nov, men pga de mange kommentarer er det opdateret til den 6. dec)
Hører biobanker — og især det materiale som er i dem — til Medicinsk Museions aktivitetsområde?
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Two of my favourite study objects right now are science blogs and gene arrays (there are in fact some interesting structural analogies between these seemingly disparate phenomena which are worth exploring further). So I searched Technorati today (they are now listing amazing 22,4 million blogs) for ‘gene array’ and found
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