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A private museum of historical medical artefacts on the web by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Like most other kinds of historical artefacts, medical objects from the past are scattered all over. Some are safely deposited in museums, small or large; others are in privat ... Read on »

Poem about Medical Museion’s collections by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I tried Microsoft’s Bing for the first time today and googl… sorry, binged ‘Medical Museion’ — and to my great surprise I found this poem dedica ... Read on »

James G. Mundie’s Cabinet of Curiosity by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Many mysteries and fascinating aspects from the field of medicine have been discussed on this blog but I can’t remember that this interesting site has ever been mentione ... Read on »

An ‘unknown’ Norwegian dentistry collection celebrates its 125th birthday by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I’m probably not the only person who has a soft spot for unknown collections, especially if they turn out to be rich and reasonably well-curated.Today I became aware of ... Read on »

Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to... by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine An online-version of Adam’s, Camilla’s and my essay ”Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museum ... Read on »

Biomedical visualisation and society by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Curators in medical museums that plan to get involved with the powerful practices of contemporary biomedical visualization (we all do, don’t we?) might learn something f ... Read on »

Beyond text — memories, monuments, machines and madeleines by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine My email inbox is continuously inundated with announcements for workshops, seminars, colloquia, conferences and other kinds of academic gatherings, covering all possible shade ... Read on »

Meeting on university collections and their integration into everyday uni life by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine German-speaking medical museum curators should be interested in a symposium on university museums and collections to be held at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 18 – 20 ... Read on »

What does ‘medical progress’ mean? A philosophical perspective by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Historians of medicine have largely eschewed notions like ‘progress’ and ‘advance’ in medical science and medical practice in favour of more historicis ... Read on »

The culture of curiosity (or: keep an eye on OBSERVATORY) by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine We here at Medical Museion are always on the outlook for new and interesting institutional experiments to learn from. This week’s announcement of up-coming events at OBS ... Read on »

Popular dissection pics by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Guess what’s currently the most popular history of medicine topic among American science readers. Plague? Noops — it’s dissection and body parts: John Harley ... Read on »

Psychiatric museums and the history of psychiatry by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Psychiatric museums have come a long way since their early days. Before the 1980s, private collections of aficionados made up the field. Since then, several psychiatric museum ... Read on »

Does a university museum have to be elitist? by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In one of his last blog posts Thomas argued that university museums are basically elitist institutions. Thomas argues that the basic success criterion for museums is the popul ... Read on »

Scientific instruments in the history and philosophy of (medical) science by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The creative editors or Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science (see earlier mention here ) are planning a focused discussion section on s ... Read on »

What’s a university museum? by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine University of Copenhagen has several museums (among them Medical Museion). And our university isn’t alone. Many, if not most, universities around the world have their ow ... Read on »

Contested categories — life sciences in society by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Two years ago, in January 2007, our own Susanne Bauer co-organised a meeting titled ‘Contested Categories’ here at Medical Museion. Now, a proceedings volume with ... Read on »

Want to be a medical museum director in Glasgow? by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is looking for a new director. More here. Read on »

The participatory medical museum — planning for the next three years by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The three first weeks in November, we are holding three internal staff meetings here at Medical Museion to discuss our plans for the next three years, 2010-2012 — with r ... Read on »

Twue them! by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine A “team of pretty cool people” in Chicago are twittering and blogging under the name ‘Museumist’. “Putting the Museum World on Display” is ... Read on »

Congrats to the Wellcome Library staff … by Thomas S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine … who have run a succesful and well-visited blog for a year now andwaxed lyrical about the Library’s collections in the areas of cataloguing and digitisation proj ... Read on »

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