MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'concept'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:10:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5107603&cid=t_127358_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F07%2Fnegawatts-the-positive-psychology-behind-negative-energy%2F Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear puts out CO2. And so, what we’re going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ~Bill Gates A typographical error led Amory Lovins to coin the phrase negawatts. In a brilliant 1989 keynote address to the Green Energy Conference in Montreal he outlined what has become the blueprint for a radical business and energy concept. Pay people to do nothing. Twenty-plus years later the idea is deeply taking hold. Fast-forward to Dr. Ron Denbo who was recently featured on a TED global ideas project. He is the Founder and CEO of Zerofootprint, an international company that provides software to measure and manage carbon footprint.  Individuals, governments ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5107603 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:24:31 +0100 5107603 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008268&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F05%2Fafter-the-storm-salvaging-the-collections-at-medical-museion%2F Who would have thought that the torrential rain during the dramatic storms seen in Copenhagen this weekend would have had such devastating consequences? The collection stores here at Medical Museion bore the brunt of it. In some places the water rose to 90 cm.  Dedicated members of the team arrived on Saturday and worked in the evening while the rooms were pumped. On Sunday, many others arrived to plough through the black gooey sludge and salvage more precious boxes. On Monday, we were organized into groups, some carrying heavy boxes filled with flood damaged artefacts that still remained in the basements. Water was still leaking out of the soaking walls and the humidity did not help the situation. Others have been removing bones from sodden boxes, attempting to dry them a little and repa... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008268 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:05:17 +0100 5008268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309875&cid=t_127358_180_f&fid=38607&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fsuccessbeginstoday%2FBHWQ%2F%7E3%2FNiL2AaEiZYk%2F With the New Year upon us, many people create resolutions for the upcoming 12 months. It may be to lose 5 pounds, get more exercise, get out of debt, or become more organized. Unfortunately most resolutions last about 3 to 4 weeks and they slowly fade away. Take a look at the huge crowds in any gym in January and then look at the crowd in April. Most people have given up. So if creating New Years Resolutions doesn’t work, what does? Is there any way to change bad habits and create the life we want to live? I took a look at the latest research by some of the top goal setting experts and came to some conclusions. Some people are getting amazing results while others give up. What is the difference? It seems there are some simple yet overlooked items that can cause the best goal setting stra... Success Begins Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309875 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:53:35 +0100 4309875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013242&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F09%2F29%2Fwhen-will-they-ever-learn%2F It’s nice, of course, to read ‘Three Unknown Places in Copenhagen Worth Exploring’ in today’s issue of denmark.net: Tired of the Little Mermaid and Tivoli Gardens? Here are three of Copenhagen’s less known tourist attractions … [the Sondermarken park, Cisternerne: Museum of Modern Glass Art  and] … Medicinsk-Historisk Museum. I assume denmark.net means Medical Museion, which has been our officially recognised name for over six years now. Implementing a new institutional identity is really an uphill struggle. Shall we throw in the towel? Noops! Museions of the world, unite! (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013242 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:57:20 +0100 4013242 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3902935&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F08%2F25%2Fhospital-for-drowned-books%2F Monday morning when the conservator arrived at the Medical Museion, and went down to the basement to continue her work on some damaged bones from the collection, she found herself standing in water up to her ankles. Like in many other parts of Zealand the heavy rains on Saturday had unexpected and unpleasant consequences for the Medical Museion. By far the largest part of the medical machines, historic books on health and hospital curios of the Medical Museion collection is kept in store rooms and basements around the buildings, out of the public eye. There simply isn’t enough room on the exhibitions.            The flood alert sounded around the Medical Museion. Hundred year old black and white photographs looked like autumn leaves, as they lay spread out on tables to dry. Boo... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3902935 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:03:48 +0100 3902935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3501549&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F04%2F23%2Fcan-a-university-museum-also-be-a-science-communication-unit%2F I’ve just had my abstract for the Universeum meeting in Uppsala in mid-June accepted. I’m pasting a somewhat expanded version of the abstract in here as a contribution to our ongoing discussion about Medical Museion’s identity: Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen is currently in a process of changing its identity. Founded in 1906, the Medical-Historical Museum in Copenhagen was one of the many traditional medical collections/museums that emerged in Europe in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. In 2001, the museum changed name to Medical Museion to emphasise the close connection between museological and historical research, heritage production and exhibitions, but otherwise the institution kept its identity as a ‘museum’. However, Medical Museion is cur... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3501549 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:05:59 +0100 3501549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3432914&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F04%2F02%2Fmuseum-identity-are-we-a-medical-conservatory%2F Museums are in a constant identity crisis, and so is ours. Ten years ago we were a typical medical-history museum, now we are thinking more about ourselves as a place for medical science communication. But we haven’t yet found a clear identity. Maybe we will never do, but the process of trying is nevertheless instructive. So I’m perpetually browsing around the get ideas, and just found this one from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres’s website: “Ainsi, peut-on considérer à juste titre l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres tout à la fois comme un ‘conservatoire’ (c’est-à-dire un lieu où l’on ’sauve’ et où l’on maintient vivante la mémoire humaine) mais aussi un ‘laboratoire’ (c&... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3432914 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:00:28 +0100 3432914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3149134&cid=t_127358_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F01%2F07%2Finternet-use-has-no-negative-influence-on-well-being%2F A recent meta-analysis examined the relationship between various Internet uses and well being. The studies published until know is mostly about the discussion whether using Internet for communication with e-mail replaces other forms of communication such as using the phone, chat or face to face contact. Contact through e-mail, facebook, twitter and such replaces real life contact and this is believed to be a bad thing. It reduces the quality of contact, make it more unpersonalized with lack of feelings and commitment. The other hypothesis is that use of Internet with e-mail, facebook, and twitter facilitates the use of the phone, and face to face contact. This can increase well-being through social interaction. These two hypotheses are called the displacement and augmentation hypotheses fo... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3149134 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:06:44 +0100 3149134 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3142840&cid=t_127358_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FRecoveryIsSexycom%2F%7E3%2F5ogsG1IwBHA%2F What and where is My Higher Power? “The answer I was looking for was on page 12 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Ebby’s words to Bill: ’”Why don’t you choose your own conception of God?”’ “’I’ve tried everything else,’ I thought, ’and I’ve got no place else to go. I might just as well.’ [...] (Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com) Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3142840 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:35:14 +0100 3142840 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003798&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F11%2F18%2Fbetween-meaning-culture-and-presence-effects-contemporary-biomedical-objects-as-a-challenge-to-museums%2F An online-version of Adam’s, Camilla’s and my essay ”Between meaning culture and presence effects: contemporary biomedical objects as a challenge to museums” is now available on the website of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Here’s the abstract of the paper: The acquisition and display of material artefacts is the raison d’être of museums. But what constitutes a museum artefact? Contemporary medicine (biomedicine) is increasingly producing artefacts that do not fit the traditional museological understanding of what constitutes a material, tangible artefact. Museums today are therefore caught in a paradox. On the one hand, medical science and technologies are having an increasing pervasive impact on the way contemporary life is lived and un... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003798 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:00:51 +0100 3003798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967320&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F11%2F06%2Fdoes-a-university-museum-have-to-be-elitist%2F 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 popularity of their exhibitions and number of visitors where on the other side the success criterion for a university museum is the quality and originality of their research. Of course I can’t speak on behalf of all the museums out there but I could easily imagine that many museum professionals could be offended by that statement. Actually I’m quite certain that a lot of great research is done by curators who are not employed by a university museum. Anyways, as to quality and originality I totally agree. That is a worthy goal but something still troubles me. Especially the following sentence: In other words, in cont... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967320 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:00:28 +0100 2967320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2958891&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F11%2F04%2Fwhats-a-university-museum%2F 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 own museums, or at least historical collections. There are in fact so many of the kind that the international museum council (ICOM) has set up a subcommittee specifically for university museums and collections (UMAC). What defines a ‘university museum’? The only criterion for membership in UMAC seems to be that the museum shall be part of a university organisation — contentwise it can be about almost anything related to the university. So from UMAC’s point of view, a ’university museum’ is primarily defined by ownership. Fair enough, but otherwise, when thinking of ’u... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2958891 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:00:20 +0100 2958891 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2934741&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F10%2F28%2Fnina-simonmuseum-2-0-at-medical-museion-tomorrow%2F Nina Simon, best known for her awesome museum 2.0 blog, is visiting Medical Museion tomorrow to give a lunch seminar on her ideas on the participatory museum. Her visit fits very well into our current plans for engaging both the health sector and the publich in re-organising the collections and permanent exhibitions — more about these plans in the next couple of weeks. If someone wants to attend, send Carsten a mail (holt@sund.ku.dk). (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2934741 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:36:34 +0100 2934741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2523576&cid=t_127358_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.gbrettmiller.com%2Ftechnology-makes-it-easy-to-%25e2%2580%2598remember%25e2%2580%2599-the-trick-is-learning-how-to-forget%2F As a follow up to my last post, The importance of forgetting, it seemed appropriate to republish the following, which I originally posted in March 2007. = = == === ===== ======== A blog post I wrote a year ago. Playing around with David Allen’s Getting Things Done. A recent article in Fast Company. Reading Steven Johnson’s book Mind Wide Open over Thanksgiving. Autism. All of these things came together in my mind over the past few days. (If the internet is a global cocktail party, and blogs are its conversations, I’m the guy who takes it all in and thinks of something to say as he’s driving home from the party. At least that’s how it feels sometimes, especially with topics such as this one.) Just over a year ago, I wrote the following: My early days in Knowledge Management incl... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2523576 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:16:39 +0100 2523576 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2280050&cid=t_127358_151_f&fid=36896&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuboxonetalkzone.com%2F%3Ffeed%3Drss The latest in YouTube video… in this short flick I talk about the ‘disease concept’ of addiction and how it applies perfectly to the use of Suboxone. Grab a bucket of popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the show… By the way, I just watched a movie entitled ‘Teeth’.  Has anybody seen it?  Netflix allows me to watch movies that I would never pay to carry from a video store!  Now they have an ‘instant download’ service that allows members to watch movies without charge… and so my standards drop a bit, as it is easy enough to simply stop a movie that turns out to be a ‘turkey’.  The movie ‘Teeth’ was very strange…  If you like dark comedy/horror flicks that have a strong feminist message, that may be the one ... Suboxone Talk Zone blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2280050 Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:54:52 +0100 2280050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2227208&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F03%2F02%2Fgrant-application-for-developing-and-expanding-medical-museion%2F We’ve just finished the application (in Danish) for a major grant to develop and expand Medical Museion: See it in greater resolution here: Unfortunately, the foundations we are sending it to, don’t have the software to disentangle the Wordle-cloud, so we will have to send them a more conventional text version. We will be back with further info when (or rather if) the application is succesful. (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2227208 Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:04:45 +0100 2227208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2194908&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F18%2Fteaching-at-medical-museion%2F Except for a 2,5 ECTS credit course in medical science and technology studies, we don’t have any obligatory teaching here at Medical Museion. But we attract several medical students who want to use their 5th/6th year elective essay (10 ECTS credits) to go deeper into the history of medicine and medical humanities. Here’s Jesper discussing the history of lobotomy with a medical student under the PH-lamp in the staff lunch room (the best supervision venue in the whole museum): (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2194908 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:00:06 +0100 2194908 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2167619&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F02%2F07%2Fthe-exhaustion-machine%2F Ever experienced being too overworked to come up with new and exciting ideas? Feeling you have nothing new to say? Three days of posting-silence is a symptom of the fact that our little group here at Medical Museion is in a pretty hectic ‘phase’ right now: We opened Design4Science less than two weeks ago after ten days of intense preparation work — it’s beautiful, but it took its toll. Some of us are teaching a 2,5 ects course in Medical Science and Technology Studies for students in the medical engineering programme (a joint programme between the Danish Technical University and University of Copenhagen). Several of us are very busy planning for the next exhibition — Split & Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine — which will open on... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2167619 Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:35:35 +0100 2167619 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2000284&cid=t_127358_122_f&fid=37835&url=http%3A%2F%2Fintelligencetesting.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fbeyond-iq-project-jrnl-of-ed-psych.html A recent issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology (2008, Vol. 100, 8) had a number of articles dealing with constructs included in the Beyond IQ projects Model of Academic Competence and Motivation (MACMM). Below are the iAbstracts (images captured and emailed from myiPhone). If any reader would like to read one of the articles (I would provide a copy of the pdf file), in exchange for a guest blog post summary to this bog, please contact the blogmaster (iapsych@charter.net)MACMM Self-concept and Self-beliefsMACMM Self-efficacy and Self-Regulated LearningMACMM Achievement goal-orientation (next three)Technorati Tags: psychology, educational psychology, school psychology, neuropsychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, motivation, self-beliefs, self-efficacy, self-confidence, goal... Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2000284 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:31:00 +0100 2000284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1806284&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F09%2F19%2Fevaluation-report-from-the-medical-museion-international-advisory-board%2F Last week’s great news for us here at Medical Museion was that our International Advisory Board — which held its first meeting in late May (see earlier post here) — has completed its report to the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The report says, among other things, that “the results of the museum activities were evaluated as being highly qualified and promising for future work”. The board members further pointed out that Medical Museion has ”been able to create a highly profiled research environment” and they “praised and expressed their respect for MM’s internationally oriented research focus” (quoted from the faculty’s press release). The Board also emphasised how important the museo... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1806284 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:16 +0100 1806284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1689010&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F08%2F08%2Fa-spinning-ct-scanner-as-a-cool-museum-artefact%2F One of the problems for museums that want to display contemporary medicine is that many medical devices are hopeless as museum artefacts because they are so damned anonymous. Take CT scanners for example: huge white or light blue plastic/metal boxes, that’s all. People who have been scanned for some serious condition may have strong personal feelings about such artefacts — but for the rest of us, they are pretty lousy museum objects. No immediate presence effects. But yesterday’s post on Imre Kissík’s and András Székely’s ‘Indulge in the fascinating world of radiology and nuclear medicine’ blog almost makes me change my mind. They display a YouTube movie that shows the inner, rapidly spinning parts of a CT scanner in operati... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1689010 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:53:24 +0100 1689010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1679376&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F08%2F05%2Fwhat-does-display-actually-cover%2F The name of this blog was chosen without thinking too much about it. We had some discussions a couple of years ago about the somewhat vague term ‘biomedicine’, but felt that Alberto Cambrosio and Peter Keating’s definition in Biomedical Platforms, 2003 (see earlier post here) was useful. The ‘display’-part never gave rise to any discussions. I guess it seemed pretty straigthforward — we are a museum and museum have displays, period. Therefore ‘Biomedicine on Display. In the course of the last couple of years, however, this blog has in practice expanded its field of interest to include the study of many other kinds of biomedical science communication practices and web presences. So it’s time to do our homework — what do the�... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1679376 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:00:28 +0100 1679376 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1596400&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F08%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-7-art-is-smart-art-is-chic%2F At last, here’s my final post in the series of rationalities for bringing art and science together in science, technology and medical museums. This one also has to do with the issue of identity formation (see last post), but now among museum curators. Here’s the argument: In the eyes of the general adult public, STM-museums are usually perceived as either nerdish, unsmart, dusty, serious (in the bad sense), etc.—or childish. In other words, our kind of museums either appeal to specialists with a deep interest in scientific instruments or, more commonly, to children, especially if we display dinosaurs, robots, human skeletons, and so forth. In other words, our kind of museums have difficulties appealing to a generally educated, culturally interested audience between the age of ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1596400 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:43:31 +0100 1596400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1582945&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F07%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-6%2F In five earlier posts I have discussed why science, technology and medical museums are increasingly employing art in their exhibitions. The fourth reason in my list of ideal-typical rationalities for bringing art and science together goes like this: If you believe in what some sociologists have recently called ‘biocitizenship’, i.e., the biomedical version of what European bureaucrats call ‘scientific citizenship’ – then, STM-museums are among the most crucial media institutions involved in the formation of such citizenship (cf. Elam and Bertilsson, 2004). This is the phenomenon of ‘governmediality’, to use Christoph Engemann’s term. There is of course a strong discursive aspect to the formation of biocitizenship. In other words, it is partly through texts that individual... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1582945 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:07:02 +0100 1582945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1577306&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F04%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-5%2F The third item on my list of ideal-typical reasons why museums want to bring art and science together is that art is a great cross-disciplinary integrator. The argument goes like this: As culturally established factories for the production of meaning in the knowledge society, the humanities have a strong disciplinary function. In other words, our research practices tend to lie within the disciplinary boundaries of pre-established conceptual power-games (philosophy, sociology, political science, history etc.). Such games are keeping our universities orderly and are holding professors and students safely away from the scandal of real global problems. (I guess Slavoj Zizek could have said this.) And here is where art comes in. Thinking about biomedical laboratories and practices in aesthet... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1577306 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:36:17 +0100 1577306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1563895&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F02%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-4%2F As I wrote in the last post, our co-operation with the Danish Museum of Art and Design in 2004 was the founding rationale for our pilgrimage into art, design and science. Then things went rapidly. In 2006 we engaged Canadian-British artist-curator Martha Fleming to help us organise a workshop on ‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’, followed by a public conference on ‘Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body’ hosted by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. We also began experimenting with different kinds of art exhibitions and installation, for example the street exhibition ‘The Face of Disease’, the photo collage exhibition ‘100 Light Years’, and the installation ‘Labyrinthitis’, a medical technology-inspired installation by Be... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1563895 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:15 +0100 1563895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1560829&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fone-aesthetically-corrupted-always-corrupted-why-do-museums-want-bring-art-and-science-together-part-3%2F Which were Medical Museion’s reasons for going into art and aesthetics? The first on my list of ideal-typical rationalities is what I call “once-aesthetically-corrupted, always-corrupted”. The argument goes like this: As Sepp Gumbrecht pointed out in his seminal 2004 book The Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey, most humanities scholars, including historians, are engaged in interpretative and hermeneutic practices. But rarely in aestethic practices, i.e., what he calls the ‘production of presence’. Same for historian-as-curators in the world of science, technology and medical museums: Most STM-curators see their museums as sites for historical narration, interpretation and contextualisation, but rarely as sites where visitors are engaged in sensual and aesthetic ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560829 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:04:11 +0100 1560829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1556321&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-3%2F Which were Medical Museion’s reasons for going into art and aesthetics? The first on my list of ideal-typical rationalities is what I call “once-aesthetically-corrupted, always-corrupted”. The argument goes like this: As Sepp Gumbrecht pointed out in his seminal 2004 book The Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey, most humanities scholars, including historians, are engaged in interpretative and hermeneutic practices. But rarely in aestethic practices, i.e., what he calls the ‘production of presence’. Same for historian-as-curators in the world of science, technology and medical museums: Most STM-curators see their museums as sites for historical narration, interpretation and contextualisation, but rarely as sites where visitors are engaged in sensual and aesthetic ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1556321 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:31:49 +0100 1556321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1554434&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F06%2F30%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-2%2F Why has art and aesthetics then entered the science, technology and medicine (STM) museum sector? This was not the case 15 or 20 years ago. What has happened in the last two decades? I will not attempt to give any historical, sociological or political explanations for the flow of art and aesthetics into STM-museums; that’s a topic for a serious research project and even a book. Instead I will take on a more preliminary task: I will try to reconstruct a handfull of ideal-typical rationalities for why STM-museum curators around the world are engaged in bringing art and the biomedical sciences together. I hasten to add that I haven’t done any fieldwork, or asked curators to fill in any questionaires. The reconstructions that follow in the next couple of posts are based primarily on websit... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1554434 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:59:55 +0100 1554434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1551358&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F06%2F28%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together%2F Museums are a significant part of the global science learning and experience economy. There are many hundreds, maybe thousands, of science, technology and medical museums and science centers around the world. The Association of Science-Technology Centers presently lists 447 institutions, but they don’t list small, regional and local museums. This STM-sector of the museum industry (let’s forget about science centers) spans everything from small, regional, amateur-driven collections and displays run by retired scientists, engineers and medical doctors to large professional-driven institutions supported by state grants and having hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of visitors each year Like the Science Museum in London, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Powerhouse... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1551358 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:54:13 +0100 1551358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531522&cid=t_127358_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F126578890%2F “On behalf of A.A. as a whole, our General Service Conference has the principal responsibility for the maintenance of our world services, and it traditionally has the final decision respecting large matters of general policy and finance. But the Conference also recognizes that the chief initiative and the active responsibility in most of these matters should be exercised primarily by the Trustee members of the Conference when they act among themselves as the general Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous.” From the discussion on the Concepts Checklist; Concept Vl: The Conference recognizes that the chief initiative and active responsibility in most world service matters should be exercised by the trustee members of the Conference acting as the General Service Board. Are we fam... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531522 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:12:02 +0100 1531522 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439565&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F05%2F13%2Fmedicoprisen-2008-the-annual-award-of-the-danish-medical-industry-organisation-to-medical-museion%2F If I were an American I would probably have rushed to my computer already last Tuesday night to proudly announce on this blog that I and Medical Museion had been given Medicoprisen. The prize has been awarded annually by the industry organisation for medical devices in Denmark (Medicoindustrien) since 2001. The industry exports for more than 40 billion DKK per year, which is quite hefty, given the small size of this country (population 5,5 mill). This year, the award was given for the work we have done here at Medical Museion to collect, preserve and display the medical industrial heritage. As you may have noticed, some of the collected artefacts have been displayed on this blog over the last couple of years (some of them are also displayed on our official website; in Danish o... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439565 Tue, 13 May 2008 08:52:33 +0100 1439565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1253233&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F02%2F25%2Fclosed-for-internal-meeting%2F Medical Museion and this blog is closed today (Monday) and tomorrow. We are going to a conference center 30 km north of Copenhagen for a two-day internal department/museum conference to discuss how we can improve the integration between our different activities (research, teaching, collecting, public outreach and exhibits). Here’s the venue: the Magleås conference center, a perfect place for small (10-35 people) workshops. (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1253233 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:37:31 +0100 1253233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1245070&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F02%2F20%2Fgoogle-and-posthumanism-a-challenge-to-medical-museums%2F Medical museums do not necessarily need to be in dialogue with contemporary science and technology; they can remain safely embedded in the past. But if they have the ambition—like we do—to contrast possible biomedical futures with the medical past (so as to be able to create some really engaging exhibitions), medical museums are well advised to make some educated guesses about what these futures might be. One source to such guess-work is the National Academy of Engineering’s list Grand Challenges for Engineering. The current list of 14 challenges includes blockbusters like making solar energy economical, providing energy from fusion, providing access to clean water, securing cyberspace, preventing nuclear terror, and restoring and improving urban infrastructure. ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1245070 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:43:33 +0100 1245070 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1187142&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F01%2F29%2Fcommunicating-medicine-through-displays-of-images-and-objects%2F On Friday 7 March scholars from Medical Museion at University of Copenhagen, the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden, the Wellcome Collection and the Science Museum in London, and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at University of Manchester will come together to discuss how we can bring our research and collections dealing with late 19th and 20th century medicine to new audiences. The workshop is organised by CHSTM with the following programme: 09.30-10.30 Introductions (chair: John Pickstone) Introduction to the issues – John Pickstone Introduction to the Medical Museion – Thomas Söderqvist Introduction to the Boerhaave Museum – Dirk van Delft Wellcome Collection: a new public venue – Lisa Jamieson Introduction to the University of Manchester... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1187142 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:03:37 +0100 1187142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1127342&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F01%2F03%2Fminority-report-meets-pharma-advertising-in-vision-of-medical-museum-futures%2F Speaking about biomedical animation and displays: iMed Studios have also just released this 2 min. holiday greeting promotional video which is useful New Year’s fuel for imagining how biomedical animations could be incorporated in future medical museum settings. For example, I like the holographic display of the heart model. Maybe this could be done as augmented reality (see earlier post here) as well? It’s also amazing to see how the collaborative touch screens which Tom Cruise sci-fictionally handled in Spielberg’s Minority Report (2002) has become a feature in a pharma advertising company promotional video! (They sort of exist IRL too.) Otherwise I must admit that I’m a bit sceptical about bringing too much holography and touch screen visions into ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1127342 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:16:59 +0100 1127342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1106224&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F12%2F19%2Ftranshumanism-and-converging-technologies-as-a-museum-topic%2F In my humble opinion, transhumanism is one of the most interesting intellectual movements today. It attracts some philosophers; quite a few high-ranking people from the fields of nanotech, biotech, information tech and cognitive science; and some accomplished artists and writers as well, like Michel Houellebecq. It has also drawn some severe criticisms, for example from Francis Fukuyama (in Our Posthuman Future, 2002). Yet it is a publicly rather neglected intellectual movement. True, the social, political, ethical etc. consequences of some specific aspects of its technoscientific base — the so called ‘converging technologies‘ (i.e., nano-bio-info-cogno, or nbic for short) — have given rise both to scholarly research and to some public debate. But alas... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1106224 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:22:01 +0100 1106224 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1079727&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F12%2F07%2Fthe-ephemeral-culture-of-biomedicine%2F I think it would be worthwhile to think a little more about ephemera in a contemporary biomedical context (cf. yesterday’s post). The term ‘ephemera’ (n. pl. of ephêmeros = short-lived) is often used by collectors for documents that were produced for the moment and not for long shelf-life: posters, recipes, advertisements, pamphlets, postcards, stamps, labels, etc. Ephemera have always been favourite objects of collectors; e.g., in a medical history context the William H. Helfand collection of proprietary health pamphlets and his collection of pharmaceutical trade cards are famous, and have been shown in several temporary displays, e.g. the exhibition ‘Here Today, Here Tomorrow … Varieties of Medical Ephemera’ at the National Library of Medi... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1079727 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:54:59 +0100 1079727 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1068686&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F12%2F04%2Fsmall-thing-museums-for-the-cognoscenti-vs-digitalizing-omnibus-museums%2F I’m thinking about one of the points that Joel Garreau brought up in an article titled “Is There a Future for Old-Fashioned Museums?” in The Washington Post two months ago (7 Oct). Referring to Wiliam J. Mitchell’s (director of the MIT Design Laboratory) writings about the digitalization of urban environments, Garreau points out that “the vast choices available on the Web punish places that try to be all things to all people”, and favor instead small specialized “places for the cognoscenti”. This tendency may be valid for museums too, he suggests: The lesson for museums is that nimble upstarts can win big. Large, long-existing players complacent in their old formulas can die. An encouraging prospect for small mammals like Medical Mu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1068686 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:08:48 +0100 1068686 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1040186&cid=t_127358_151_f&fid=36047&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FADozenSteps%2F%7E3%2F188030643%2F Concept XI “While the trustees hold final responsibility for A.A.’s world service administration, they should always have the assistance of the best possible standing committees, corporate service directors, executives, staffs and consultants. Therefore, the composition of these underlying committees and service boards, the personal qualifications of their members, the manner of their induction into service, the systems of their rotation, the way in which they are related to each other, the special rights and duties of our executives, staffs and consultants, together with a proper basis for the financial compensation of these special workers, will always be matters for serious care and concern” From the discussion on the Concepts Checklist; Concept Xl: The trustees should alw... A Dozen Steps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1040186 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:47:06 +0100 1040186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1035796&cid=t_127358_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F186979443%2F Some weeks ago we explained how useful Concept Maps can be to quickly visualize the key ideas in a field, and their relationships. Let me show you this fantastic example. A few weeks ago I was interviewed by David Peskovitz of the Institute for the Future (blog) to discuss The Future of Work and Cognitive Fitness trends. They had an artist who drew the graph below IN REAL TIME, AS WE SPOKE. Very impressive. Please open the full image by clicking on it, and spend a few minutes reading around, top-down, left-to right. You will learn much about how HR and Corporate Training departments can start thinking about Brain Fitness (therefore becoming "Cognitive Resources Managers"), and also how to display complex information in beautiful visual form.     "   Given the so-calle... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1035796 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:07:25 +0100 1035796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1019113&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F11%2F11%2Funiversity-museums-between-the-local-community-and-the-global-marketplace%2F As I hinted at a couple of days ago, Giorgio Agamben’s reflections on the ‘Museum’ has stimulated my thoughts about how the activities here at Medical Musieon could be understood in terms of a global ’Museum-at-large’. The ‘Museum’ is only one side of our coin, however. The other is that as a unit at the University of Copenhagen we belong to the large subfamily of institutions around the world known as ’university museums’. How shall we understand a unit like ours in terms of a global ‘University-at-large’? Maybe one could get some inspiration from the upcoming EduFactory on-line seminar described in the ‘Prospectus for Second Round of edu-factory discussion, 25 Nov 2007 - 28 Feb 2008′ (pu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1019113 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:09:36 +0100 1019113 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966542&cid=t_127358_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F172118152%2F We often talk in this blog about how to expand fundamental abilities or cognitive functions, like attention, or memory, or emotional self-regulation. Think of them as muscles one can train. Now, it is also important to think of ways one can use our existing muscles more efficiently. Let's talk about how to manage better the overwhelming amount of information available these days. Hundreds of thousands of new books, analyst reports, scientific papers published every year. Millions of websites at our googletips. The flow of data, information and knowledge is growing exponentially, stretching the capacity of our not-so-evolved brains. We can complain all day that we cannot process ALL this flow. Now, let me ask, should we even try? Probably not. Why engage in a losing proposition. Instead... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966542 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:58:27 +0100 966542 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=949630&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F10%2F14%2Foldetopia-exhibition-opened-at-medical-museion%2F Last Thursday (11 October) Medical Museion’s first large temporary exhibition — “Oldetopia: On Age and Ageing“ –was opened and the following night (which was the Copenhagen Culture Night) we had about 2500 visitors in six hours between 6pm and 12pm. Here are some photos from Friday night (click for more here):  As usual the permanent exhibitions were open too until midnight. Here’s guest researcher Sven Erik Hansen demonstrating the model of the Royal College of Surgeons and the old Frederik Hospital: And here’s collection manager Ion Meyer explaining some of the old anatomical and pathological specimens: And here are visitors coordinator Monica Lambert and administrator Stine Skipper selling Glühwein outside Medical Museion: (Sour... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=949630 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:40:43 +0100 949630 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=893254&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F09%2F23%2Fcalum-storrie-on-medical-museion%2F Calum Storrie, who participated in the workshop “Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context” held here in Copenhagen three weeks ago, has just sent the following post-workshop responses to our future plans for Medical Museion as they were presented during a one-hour around the exhibitions and storage facilities (I have added the links): ——— I wanted to clarify some things that were implied in my last remarks at the Workshop but were not explicit. I hope you will excuse that these points have something of the feeling of a manifesto. Exploit the spatial The Museion is a unique site. Not only are there remarkable (even extra-ordinary) interior spaces that resonate with the particular subject matter of the Museion, but there are also connections beyond... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=893254 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 08:06:06 +0100 893254 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=755633&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Fannual-report-2007%2F The Annual Report of Medical Museion (Årsskrift for Medicinsk Museion) has just been published and is about to be distributed. This post has been created for readers’ comments. You can choose to air your ire or stimulate our vanity receptors. (You can write in English or in any Scandinavian language.) Readers of this blog who are not on our snail mail distribution list (as you may discover when your copy fails to arrive in your snail mail box) can order the annual report by writing to Monica Lambert, mbl@mm.ku.dk — it costs 100 DKK + postage.  (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=755633 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:33:17 +0100 755633 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=710377&cid=t_127358_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F129822298%2Fbrain_cells_spot_rest_places.html More people prefer their own homes over larger impersonal workspaces. What does the brain have to do with this? New research points to brain cells connected to a place to "curl up" or enjoy more personal space.  Joe Tsien from the Center for Systems Neurobiology at Boston University shows research that supports an interesting discovery. Through an interesting series of studies researchers identified brain cells that appear to encode the concept of “nest.” Researchers reported that … to form such an abstract concept here is also to guide behavior when a person deals with complex or new situations.I'm curious about the new findings as these relate to daily behavioral experiences and new demands made from increasingly fast paced and complex... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=710377 Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:57:41 +0100 710377 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650941&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F06%2F01%2Fgreat-clearance-day-at-the-uni-of-copenhagen-medical-faculty-an-opportunity-for-the-archaeology-of-contemporary-biomedicine%2F The Faculty of Health Sciences at our university has a “Great Clearance Day” on Thursday 21 June. The purpose is to prepare for the big faculty building reallocation exercise that is going to take place in the summer and early autumn. The faculty’s technical dept writes: This will be the day when we will clear our shelves and the heaps that have accumulated in offices and laboratories over the years. Everything from old apparatuses and unused chemicals to documents and furniture can be removed (transl. from the Danish orig.) As Jan Eric and Susanne pointed out the other day, this is a great opportunity to practice the archaeology of contemporary biomedicine — nay, even garbage archaeology, i.e., the kind of archaeology that studies today’s culture and s... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650941 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 19:45:08 +0100 650941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=612069&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F05%2F17%2Fa-new-icon-of-contemporary-and-future-biomedicine%2F Since 2004 Medical Museion has used a common commercial microarray (Affymetrix’s GeneChip®) as an icon for our collecting and display efforts. The GeneChip has many of the features that characterise the ongoing biomedical ‘revolution’: it symbolises molecularisation and digitalisation of medicine (at least in diagnostics) and it’s a fine example of the progressive miniaturisation of medical technology and clinical practices. Read more in this earlier post about the GeneChip as an exhibition artefact. But I guess we are increasingly growing tired of the GeneChip. We have used it in literally hundreds of seminars and lectures over the last three years to illustrate the historiographical and museological road we are travelling on. So I think it’s time to shift iconic artefact (a... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=612069 Thu, 17 May 2007 11:05:36 +0100 612069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=543786&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F04%2F14%2Fnext-week-is-presence-week%2F Next week is a busy ’presence’ week at Medical Museion. As already announced we are arranging three public events — 1) a seminar with Paris-based author and curator Jens Hauser on Tuesday at 2pm; 2) a guest lecture with Sepp Gumbrecht, Stanford University on Wednesday at 3pm; and 3) the  workshop ’Making Sense or Sensing the Made’ on Thursday morning. For details, see here. We’ll be back with more details in the next couple of days. (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=543786 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:39:49 +0100 543786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479168&cid=t_127358_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F03%2F07%2Findsamling-og-museion-integration%2F (Semi-internal discussion in Danish:) Jeg synes diskussionen om Sørens plan for indsamlingsprocedurer på seminaret i går var meget interessant, og Ion og jeg snakkede lidt opfølgende om det her i formiddags. Som flere var inde på, så kredsede diskussionen mere eller mindre direkte omkring integrationen af forskning, indsamling og samlinger. Var de forskellige synspunkter udtryk for personlige holdninger? Eller er det tale om strukturelt betingede forskelle i synen på indsamling, fx om man kommer fra “museumssiden” eller fra “forskningssiden”? Indtager vi forskellige roller — som hhv. “anarkistiske” forskere og “ordensfikserede” samlingskuratorer? Eller var det ”lyst” og “ansvar”, der var grundtemae... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479168 Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:30:20 +0100 479168