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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 […]

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 […]

How do members of the public perceive biomedicine and biomedical scientists? What kind of experiences may lie behind these perceptions? And how do they change? These are crucial questions to be asked by any medical history museum that has the intention, somehow, to contribute to the public understanding of medicine. So far the answer is: […]

Greetings from Rachel Mayeri:

If you happen to be in Barcelona on the 30th of March, why don’t you come and listen to my talk “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” at Sala de conferències de la Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC / Generalitat de Catalunya), carrer de l’Hospital 64, 08001 Barcelona, at 7pm. Organizers: Residència d’Investigadors (CSIC – Generalitat […]

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Workshop “The Value of Objects, Materials and Practices”, Wednesday, 15 March 2006, 2:00-5:00pm, Lancaster University, IAS Meeting Room 2-3 This workshop will focus on some of the material artefacts associated with the contemporary development of the life sciences, as well as the forms of work associated with them, especially as these artefacts move across institutional […]

The postgenomic.com blog is a brand new addition to the growing number of meta-blog tools — like technorati, but specializing in biomedicine and the life sciences. The blog aggregates posts from (presently some 100) life science and biomedicine blogs and uses data from these blogs to do several things.

Good news for scholars interested in biomedicine and society — the first issue of the new journal BioSocieties, “an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of the life sciences, genomics and neuroscience” is announced to appear in March 2006.

Last Friday, the 10th of February, I and some other forty curious spectators, gathered at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to witness the artist Phillip Warnell swallow a pill camera and discuss the view of his belly with consultant gastroenterologist Dr. Simon Anderson. The event took place between 3.00pm and 8.00pm, which was approximately […]

Jens Lohferts forelæsning om “Litteratur og medicin” ved det eksterne Museion-seminar d. 7. februar blev optaget af StudenterTV. Forelæsningen sendes på Kanal København mandag d. 6. marts kl. 11.30 til 12.30.