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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The array and variety of visualizations in postgenomics are seemingly unlimited. Here’s a subset of Marc Vidal’s research group’s preliminary map of the human interactome, originally published in Nature, vol. 437, pp. 1173-78 (2005).
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‘Mediated Bodies’, International conference, 14-16 September 2006, Faculty of Arts and Culture, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
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Just a spontaneous spin-off thought inspired by Susanne‘s project on the visualization of epidemiology — I fell across the Information Aesthetics blog with the subtitle “form follows data – towards creative information visualization”. I like the range of creative possibilities, e.g. this pic:

“an interactive photo mosaic of a graphical icon or logo made up of hundreds of relevant website screenshots, demonstrating the concept ‘a picture is worth a thousand websites'”.
(see the original interactive collage at urlyart.com).
Would this interactive visualization make sense in the popular understanding of epidemiology?

A new series of Witness Seminars have been announced for the spring of 2006. The History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group, headed by Tilli Tansey, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL in London, are arranging the following four seminars between March and July:
– March 16: The Early Development of Total Hip Replacement
– April 4: The Discovery, Use and Impact of Platinum Salts as Chemotherapy Agents for Cancer
– May 9: Medical Ethics Education in Britain 1963-1993
– July 11: Superbugs and Superdrugs: The history of MRSA
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