History of Medicine

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• Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 494
  A short course in the history of medicine led by Dr An Vleugels, Birkbeck College, University of London, starts in January. Exploring Wellcome Collection: A History of the Human Body in Europe draws on the rich holdings of Wellcome Collection, both in the Library and the galleries, to trace how ideas about the human ...
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• Health Insurance Cooperatives: Lessons From the Great Depression [Commentary]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 443
  
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• The Sinister "Chef" of Zam-Buk

  
  The Virtual Dime Museum — Authority: 463
  Even before one knows the company responsible for this little book (circa 1912) - one is startled. Because honestly - are you going to feel happy about cooking things recommended by this villainous-looking fellow who calls himself "Chef" in quotation marks? Is he not a real Chef? Perhaps not, since he resembles ...
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• “From Cure to Custodianship”

  
  Advances in the History of Psychology — Authority: 111
  The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences has just released its January 2010 issue online. Included in this issue is an article by Fulbright scholar Lawrence B. Goodheart. In “From Cure to Custodianship of the Insane Poor in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut” Goodheart provides an account of life ...
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• Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums — Copenhagen, 16-19 September 2010

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  Here’s the announcement for a conference to be held here at Medical Museion next September: Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums Copenhagen, 16-19 September, 2010 The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) ...
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• Picturing Medical Progress From Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America [Book and Media Reviews]

  
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• The recent history of medical technology — piecing it together from memoirs and reminiscences

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  One of the challenges for a museum of medicine intent on collecting recent and contemporary medical artefacts is to get an overview of the historical development of medical instruments, medical technological systems and the medical device industry. Trade shows and their catalogues (published or online) are excellent ...
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• Speaking of uncollectables …

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  … I just found a blogpost titled: Coffee, Sex, and Other Weird Ways to Not Get Sick . It lists seven weird ways for helping your immune system: 1. Kiss (and while you’re at it, have Sex)! 2. Listen to music. 3. Walk Really Fast, But Don’t Run! 4. Don’t Blow Your Nose. 5. Get Hot! 6. Avoid the Desert (or any ...
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• Is biomedicine making the body invisible and immaterial — and uncollectable?

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  Is it really the case that almost all museum exhibitions dealing with medical themes these days are displaying DNA-images and colourful neuroscanning pictures? Well, at least this is what the organisers of a meeting in Dresden next April seem to be suggesting. I think they are exaggerating a bit :-). But that said, ...
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• Curatorial and artistic techniques in investigating and presenting (biomedical) bodies

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  We are of course not the only museum that struggles with how to juggle art, science, materiality and medicine in our exhibitions. Next Friday, 4 December, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge is organising a most interesting afternoon symposium titled ‘Assembling Bodies: Art, ...
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• Wellcome Library Insight - Anatomies of London

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 494
  This Saturday (28th November) offers another chance to discover some fascinating tales of London life, through our Anatomies of London Insight session. One of our most popular Insights, previous versions of Anatomies of London have been recommended by Time Out , and insprired the Patterson Challenge . The session ...
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• Museums as graveyards for dead objects (rather than echo rooms for talking objects?)

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  Last year we had a discussion on this blog (see here and here ) about whether objects ‘talk’ — no, they don’t! But do they ’die’? The UCL-based  Autopsies group  (associated with Film Studies) suggests they do. The group runs  a cultural studies project called “Autopsies: The Afterlife of Dead ...
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• A private museum of historical medical artefacts on the web

  
  Biomedicine on Display — Authority: 124
  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 private collections; others again are circulating between private collectors, mediated by eBay and other auction services (and some, especially ...
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• Courier duties to the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 494
  Leonardo di Vinci , Damien Hirst and Marc Quinn are just a few of the famous artists whose works will be displayed at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, as well as other contemporary and historical items from the collections of the Wellcome Library and Wellcome Collections. This exciting exhibition is based on ...
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• Pa Cat s Merciless Jokes

  
  The Virtual Dime Museum — Authority: 463
  Would anyone like to guess what on earth the picture has to do with Dunbars Diarrhoea Mixture? And is that an alarm bell that the kitten on the right is about to pull? I think that the consumer was meant to draw an analogy  between the condition that the Mixture was supposed to alleviate, and the distress of the ...
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