Communicating Medicine: Objects and Objectives
This workshop was held at CHSTM on 7 March 2008.
Conference Reports
Read the reports on this website by
Emm Barnes and
Ray Macauley
and on the weblog of the Medical Museion by
Thomas Söderqvist
Programme
09.00-09.30: Registration and coffee
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 – Emm Barnes
10.30-12.00: London & Manchester (chair: Thomas Söderqvist)
- "'Sleeping and Dreaming' at Wellcome Collection" – Kate Forde
- "Communicating Medical Research: Updating the Health Matters Gallery at the Science Museum" – Katie Maggs (Science Museum, Kensington)
- "Big Machines and Small Wonders: Ingenuity in Adapting Equipment and Engineering Skills to Create Total Hip Replacements" – Francis Neary (Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge)
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30: Leiden and Copenhagen (chair: Carsten Timmermann)
- "Exposing 'My Skin': Communicating Body History" – Mieneke Te Hennepe (Boerhaave Museum, Leiden)
- "Age on Stage: The Making of the Exhibition Oldetopia" – Camilla Mordhorst (Medical Museion, Copenhagen)
- "Making Sense or Sensing the Made: from historical interpretation to material presence in biomedical museum settings" – Thomas Söderqvist (Medical Museion, Copenhagen)
14.30-15.00: Coffee
15.00-16.30: Copenhagen (chair: Emm Barnes)
- "Curating biomedical software: the case of epidemiological risk assessment tools" – Susanne Bauer (Medical Museion)
- "Pill cam visions: endoscopic diagnosis as public spectacle" – Jan-Eric Olsén (Medical Museion)
- "How to make contact with the materialities of recent biomedicine" – Søren Bak-Jensen (Medical Museion)
16.30-17.00: Closing discussion