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CFP: Samtidshistorisk medicinhistorie, Göteborgs Universitet, mandag 23. oktober 2006

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Ingemar Nilsson og Margareta Hallberg, Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet


(Institutionen för idéhistoria och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet)

planlægger en konference på temaet “Samtidshistorisk medicinhistoria” mandag den 23. oktober 2006. De vil have forslag til præsentationer senest den 31. august (titel + kort abstract). Sendes til ingemar.nilsson@hum.gu.se
(Nærmere detaljer kommer nok på dette website senere under sommeren)

Writing Recent Science

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How do you document the recent history of science?, asks Gustav Holmberg in the Swedish version of his blog, The Imaginary Magnitude? Well, here’s an attempt:

Ron Doel (Dept of History, Oregon State University) and myself are about to publish a collection called Writing Recent Science on Routledge, later this summer. We have our own (cool, of course) website for advertising (it’s not active yet, unfortunately active now!). Here’s the cover photo (which is about astronomy rather than biomedicine):

And here’s our manuscript for the intro chapter (which at least refers to the history of recent biomedicine now and then). The footnotes are missing, though, because I cannot find an easy way of transferring them into html- format:
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Minisymposium on "Evolutionary Medicine", University of Copenhagen, Friday 15 December, 2006

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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

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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.