Anutius Foesius: His 1595 edition of Hippocrates altered
Among the treasures of Medical Museion in Copenhagen are rare books such as the first edition by Anutius Foesius of the collected works of Hippocrates, presented as one volume with eight sections.
The book was beautifully printed in Greek and Latin by the Wechel heirs in Frankfurt in 1595 and is considered the best edition of Hippocrates prior to the ten volumes by É. Littré, published in 1839-1861 in Greek and French.
Hippocrates 1595 held at Medical Museion, MHM M15
Jacques Jouanna has written an interesting article on the achievements of Foesius in ”Lire les Médecins Grecs à la Renaissance”, Actes du colloque in...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 1, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Kirsten Jungersen Tags: history of medicine Anutius Foesius @en first editions Hippocrates Jacques Jouanna @en Jean Opsopoeus Source Type: blogs
Hybrid Psychiatry Room (beta version) in Medical Museion
A couple of months ago we closed our psychiatry gallery on the 2nd floor in the museum’s Academy Building. Instead we have created a smaller room — a hybrid between exhibition, open collection, and study room/inspiration venue on the ground floor — which we call The Psychiatry Room
The planning for The Psychiatry Room began half a year ago when we realised we had to move the library, and that the best place to put the books was — right, the psychiatry gallery. Good for the books but bad for the psychiatry exhibit, which was only six years old.
We didn’t want to remove psychiatry from the muse...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 29, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: collections conservation curation displays/exhibits history of medicine Source Type: blogs
Is Yammer really an appropriate communication tool for universities?
Have you heard about Yammer? If not, you are not alone. Many people, who are otherwise familiar with social media like Facebook and Twitter, haven’t.
The reason for the relative obscurity of this social network service, which was launched in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, is probably that it is designed for communication within organisations. Users can join a Yammer network only if they have an email address from the organisation’s domain. In that respect, Yammer differs from almost all other social media. Yammer works inside organisations, not in the public domain.
Its relative obscurity shouldn...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 20, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: science communication studies social web media Source Type: blogs
Newsletter from Medical Museion
Click here for the newsletter, in Danish and English.
5th newsletter from Medical Museion in 2013.
Videos of “It’s Not What You Think” workshop talks now online!
This Thursday: Newton’s Chicken. Seminar with Massimiano Bucchi
Sneak preview: New psychiatry room
Speakers for “The Data Body On The Dissection Table” announced
May 20th: Morgan Meyer seminar on labs in museums
June 20th: Bruno Strasser seminar
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Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 15, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: news newsletter Source Type: blogs
David Pantalonys 28 photos from It’s Not What You Think
David took part in the workshop at Medical Museion on 8-9 March and took these beautiful photos of the event. David Pantalony: “These are a few photos and comments from the workshop “It’s not what you think,” March 8-9 2013 at the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark. They offer merely a glimpse of some of the sights and experiences from what was a creative and inspiring workshop about the challenges of “communicating medical materialities.””
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scitechcurator/sets/72157632999595513/
(Posted with permission from David Pantalony)
All rights reserved by David Pa...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: conferences events INWYT medical humanities photography Source Type: blogs
Professor Jane Macnaughton blogging about the workshop It’s Not What You Think (reblog)
Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University Jane Macnaughton reports her experiences with the workshop It’s Not What You Think at Medical Museion on 8-9 March 2013 (excerpt): “Adam and Louise had attracted a very diverse group of scholars, museum practitioners, artists, philosophers, science communicators – and one clinician (that was me) (…) One of the key themes that come out in our discussions was ‘to label or not to label’? Do artefacts in museums need labels, what should be written on them, and what force do these labels have on the reader?”
Jane Macnaughtons blog post Encounters with Medical ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: artefacts blogging INWYT medical humanities Source Type: blogs
The Data Body on the Dissection Table — a joint Leonardo/Olats and Medical Museion event
It’s less than four weeks left to yet another event here at Medical Museion — ‘The Data Body on the Dissection Table’ — organised by Annick Bureaud from Leonardo/Olats together with our own Louise Whiteley.
The event takes place in Medical Museion’s unique late 18th century anatomical lecture theatre in the old Royal Academy of Surgeons in Copenhagen in Tuesday 4 June, 6.30 — 9 pm.
Dissection reveals what lies beneath the skin, but for a brief moment in time, and for a privileged few. Depictions, models, and preservations have long been used to share what dissection uncovers; from...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 12, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: art and biomed art and science events Source Type: blogs
Guest lectures at Medical Museion: Massimiano Bucchi, Morgan Meyer and Bruno Strasser
Just want to mention three upcoming Thursday afternoon lectures here at Medical Museion (abstracts will be up on our seminar page soonish):
* Thursday 16 May, 3pm: Massimiano Bucchi (Trento) on “Newton’s Chicken. Science in The Kitchen and its Metaphors” (abstract here for circulation).
* Thursday 30 May, 3pm: Morgan Meyer (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Paris) on labs in museums.
* Thursday 20 June, 3pm: Bruno Strasser (Science Education and History of Science, Geneva).
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Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 11, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: seminars Source Type: blogs
Collecting and displaying healthcare ICT — are medical museums ready for the future?
Here are some topics that medical museums need to get involved with if we want to engage with contemporary healthcare:
* Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care
* Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems
* Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems
* Clinical Data and Knowledge Management
* Cloud Computing for Healthcare
* Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare
* Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care
* Data mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare
* Data Visualization
* Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
* Drug Information Systems
* Design and Development Methodologies...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - May 10, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: curation displays/exhibits future medical science and technology medical humanities medical scientific instruments medical technology public health science communication Source Type: blogs
Newsletter from Medical Museion
Click here for the newsletter, in Danish and English.
4th newsletter from Medical Museion in 2013.
“Explore the substance and science of fat” – numbers are limited for this hands-on event.
“Under The Skin: Follow the construction of the new exhibition” – Follow the process.
“Web exhibition: behind the scenes on ‘Biohacking – Do It Yourself!’” – Explore the field of biohacking.
“Save the date! The Data Body On The Dissection Table” – Event on the data body on June 4th.
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Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 30, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Lasse Frank Tags: news newsletter Source Type: blogs
Taking down exhibitions can bring us closer to the objects than building new ones (and create more fun)
I wrote the other day that taking down museum exhibitions could be as much fun as building new ones.
That was a pretty spontaneous tongue-in-cheek comment triggered by our conservator Nanna Gerdes’ enthusiastic twitter series of images (see @NaGerdes and storified here, here and here) from the process of taking down three old exhibition rooms in our museum’s Tietkens Gaard building.
But the more I think about it, I feel this spontaneous remark has some deeper truth to it. Here’s the way I reason about it:
Most curators will probably think the design and building of an exhibition is more fun than taking it...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 29, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics artefacts collections conservation material studies Source Type: blogs
The colour historians were here
We’ve had two specialists in colour history visting from the National Museum of Denmark.
They have worked hard grinding down selected areas of the walls and doors in the museum’s Titkens Gaard building to find out what colours the new exhibition room have had since the mid 18th century.
See also Nanna’s tweets here.
For larger images, click the photos below: (Source: Biomedicine on Display)
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 28, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: conservation displays/exhibits Source Type: blogs
Taking down exhibitions is almost as fun as building them up
As I wrote in an earlier post, we are now on the track of building up the new semi-permanent exhibition ‘Under the Skin’ in the museum’s Tietkens Gaard building.
In the last couple of months, our conservator Nanna Gerdes has worked hard to take down the three former exhibition rooms and packed the artefacts for remote storage.
Judged by Nanna’s enthusiastic photographing activities, taking down the old exhibitions for storage seems to be almost as fun as building up new ones.
See Nanna’s storified twitter posts of the X-ray study collection with images here; ditto from the Finsen exhibition h...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 27, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: buildings conservation curation displays/exhibits Source Type: blogs
Human remains — constructing the ‘Under the Skin’-exhibition
We are now in the first phase of the construction of our new 3500 square feet semi-permanent exhibition here at Medical Museion — provisionally titled ‘Under the Skin’ — to be opened in the late autumn of 2014.
The exhibition will show some of best specimens from our big collection of normal and pathological anatomical specimens and other human remains, together with a number of new acquisitions from contemporary human remains, such as samples from bio- and tissue banks.
Already last year we secured the basic funding for the new exhibition from the Arbejdsmarkedets Feriefond (AFF), but until recent...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 26, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics Source Type: blogs
The substance of fat – a multisensory event about fat
Want to explore fat with pencil and pastry fork?
We seem to live in a world obsessed with fat. Obesity is described as a worldwide health threat, and we are bombarded by diet advice. But fat itself is a mystery. While we know that “full fat” foods can be bad for us, we also know that the body needs fat (and of course, greasy food can be the most delicious). We often find fatty substances disgusting, but moisturize our skin with lotions based on lard and oil. And the kinds of bodies seen as beautiful oscillate wildly over time and media. It’s a love-hate relationship.
Last year we opened the exhibition “Obesity ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - April 25, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics events Source Type: blogs
