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Popular dissection pics
Biomedicine on Display —
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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 Warner and Jim Edmonson’s beautifully illustrated Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 (see earlier post ...2 days ago -
Psychiatric museums and the history of psychiatry
Biomedicine on Display —
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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 museums have emerged. Today, these institutions have turned into modern museums creating numerous exhibitions and reaching large audiences. The most ...3 days ago -
Scientific instruments in the history and philosophy of (medical) science
Biomedicine on Display —
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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 scientific instruments in a forthcoming issue of the journal. With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a ...5 days ago -
Want to be a medical museum director in Glasgow?
Biomedicine on Display —
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The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow is looking for a new director. More here .1 week ago -
Is There a Vaccine for Social Media?
Procurement Insights —
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With the upcoming segment “ Socially Branded Journalism: Crossing the Generational Divide ,” in which I talk with Dr. John Tantillo regarding social media and the “personal branding” phenomenon’s impact on the difference between opinion and research-based news, one cannot help but consider the ongoing debate ...1 week ago -
A Trumpet In Your Ear
The Virtual Dime Museum —
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As so many of you guessed, this lovely little silver object is in fact an ear trumpet. Possibly inspired by people cupping a hand to the ear to improve hearing, the ear trumpet has existed for centuries although the earliest print references date from the 17th century. Originally made out of animal horns, ear ...2 weeks ago -
Medicine, archives and researching lives
Biomedicine on Display —
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Looks immediately like an innovative angle to the study of lives in science — that is, Wellcome Library’s and the British Records Association’s upcoming conference Researching Lives: Medicine, science and archives on the 8th December at Wellcome Collection in London. The one-day meeting will deal ...2 weeks ago -
Open Access Week 2009
Wellcome Library —
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This week is Open Access Week 2009 . The aim of which is to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access - the principle that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. As such, we thought wed take the opportunity to flag up United Kingdom PubMed Central ( UKPMC ), a free ...2 weeks ago -
Rackstrows Museum
Wellcome Library —
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Exquisite Bodies , the Wellcome Collection exhibition which closes this Sunday, aims to provide a history of the anatomical model in the nineteenth century. The show begins however, with an introduction to anatomical museums in the eighteenth century. One of the first items on display is the Wellcome ...3 weeks ago -
Open House
Wellcome Library —
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Open House London has established itself in recent years as one of the city’s most popular events. A celebration of the diversity of the capital’s buildings, the event allows free access to many buildings normally closed to the public. Open House 2009 takes this place this weekend – 18th and 19th September ...7 weeks ago
