{"id":1044063,"date":"2010-10-11T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/conference-report-%e2%80%98contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums%e2%80%99-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:10:25","slug":"conference-report-contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/conference-report-contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Conference Report: \u2018Contemporary Medical Science and Technology as a Challenge to Museums\u2019, 15th Bi-Annual EAMHMS Congress, Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_y5Y_xVte8sI\/TK2EHw7FCtI\/AAAAAAAAByU\/ZWWcEx1S_jA\/s1600\/P1010951.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e10cd_P1010951.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><blockquote><p><span>For medical museums, whose collections are typically composed of evocative historical objects, developments in contemporary biomedicine offer a twofold challenge to collecting and exhibiting. The first challenge is the nature of contemporary biomedical equipment: large, expensive, and without immediately obvious function (think fMRI scanner). Where a display of surgeons&rsquo; tools can be both instructive and chilling, a collection of grey-box scanners and robotic surgical suites is likely to offer both historians and visitors less. The second challenge is more fundamental: medical investigation and treatment now operates beyond the limits of the visible, at the level of genes and proteins, a scale which it is hard to relate to our own bodies and lived experience. Even the beautifully-limned image of an SEMmed protein can&rsquo;t offer the visceral thrill of corporeal recognition that a pickled heart in a jar does...<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><p>For the curious among you: The Wellcome Collection's Danny Birchall has written a very nice conference report--as excerpted above--about last month's &lsquo;Contemporary Medical Science and Technology as a Challenge to Museums&rsquo; EAMHMS Congress in Copenhagen.<\/p><p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/museumcultures.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/22\/the-challenge-in-copenhagen\/\">here<\/a> to read full report on Danny's blog \"Museum Cultures.\"<\/p><p>Image: Installation view of Medical Museion, the host institution in Copenhagen.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bb391_6582997874621015158-4879855498813555589?l=morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For medical museums, whose collections are typically composed of evocative historical objects, developments in contemporary biomedicine offer a twofold challenge to collecting and exhibiting. The first challenge is the nature of contemporary biomedical equipment: large, expensive, and without immediately obvious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/conference-report-contemporary-medical-science-and-technology-as-a-challenge-to-museums-15th-bi-annual-eamhms-congress-copenhagen-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}