Representing contemporary medical science and technology in museums, Copenhagen, 16-18 September, 2010

The 15th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS) will be held in Copenhagen, 16-18 September, 2010.

The theme of this year's conference is the challenge to museums posed by contemporary developments in medical science and technology.

How do museums today handle the material and visual heritage of contemporary medical and health science and technology? How do curators wield the increasing amount and kinds of more or less intangible scientific and digital objects? Which intellectual, conceptual, and practical questions does this challenge give rise to?

Read the full call here: http://tinyurl.com/ylx5atx

Further information here: http://www.mm.ku.dk/sker/eamhms.asp

Send proposals for presentations, panels etc. to ths@sund.ku.dk

-- not later than 22 March.

Program committee:

• Ken Arnold, Wellcome Collection, London
• Robert Bud, Science Museum, London
• Judy Chelnick, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
• Mieneke te Hennepe, Boerhaave Museum, Leiden
• Thomas Soderqvist, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen (chair).

Thomas Soderqvist, Professor in History of Medicine, Director, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, +45 2875 3801; ths@sund.ku.dk; www.corporeality.net/museion