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Openings for Visiting Researchers at the Science Museum, London Two Short-term Visiting Research Fellowships, 2011-2 This is an exciting opportunity to carry out research on the unparalleled collections of the Science Museum, London. The Science Museum is offering Visiting Research Fellowships for advanced research on its scientific, technological and medical collections. The Science Museum has the largest and most significant collections relating to science, technology and medicine. With over 300,000 objects in its care, the Science Museum has particular strengths in the history of western science, technology and medicine since 1700. This collection is supported by the books, journals and archives which are available in the Science Museum Library. The Science Museum’s research programme has the aim of promoting scholarly research which furthers our understanding of the development of science, technology and medicine. The museum is not constrained by disciplinary boundaries and w...

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award at Goldsmiths and the Science Museum http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/news/eventtitle,26663,en.php Oramics – Electronic Music Precedents, Technology and Influence This PhD project is focused on an iconic object within the history of British electronic music, Daphne Oram’s ‘Oramics Machine’, a unique music synthesizer developed during the 1960s by this founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The project is conceived to work out from a close reading of the surviving object, which is now in the Science Museum’s collections, to a full understanding of the origins and influence of Daphne Oram’s musical practice. At the moment, Oram’s relations to existing artistic and musical practice is only understood at the most general level; equally the extent and pathways of her influence on subsequent electronic and digital music practices require extensive study to be able to make a fair evaluation. The project will use the Daphne Oram archive of recordings a...

The Pulse-Project.org is delighted to announce the release of 7 podcasts, papers presented to the conference: “The Disease Within: Confinement in Europe, 1400-1800” Oxford Brookes University,  4-5th March 2011 Go to Podcasts Conference Summary This two-day conference brought together leading scholars from medical history, early modern social history and architectural history to exchange and debate ideas regarding the relationship between health and architecture in institutions of confinement. Two central themes were explored: the effect of confinement on the health of those within the institutions and debates about the potential effects of unhealthy bodies of the poor, sick, criminal and dangerous inmates on wider towns and cities. Despite the best attempts by authorities, inhabitants and their diseases continued to pose a risk to communities’ health and morality from behind closed doors and beyond high walls. The podcasts presented below were kindly funded by the Wellcome Trus...

Están disponibles los videos con las conferencias y mesas redondas de las Jornadas "LAS DOS CULTURAS 2011", dedicadas a "LAS FRONTERAS DE LA CIENCIA (CIENCIA, HUMANIDADES, CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y PSEUDOCIENCIAS)" , celebradas en la Facultad de Enfermería y Fisioterapia de la Universidad de Cádiz, con la participación de ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA, MANUEL LOZANO LEYVA, CARLOS ELÍAS, JAVIER ARMENTIA, IGNACIO MORGADO BERNAL Y FRANCISCO JAVIER PERALES. Adjunto enlace: http://relec.es.mialias.net/dosculturas/ En esta misma página se puede acceder a los videos de las conferencias de ediciones anteriores. Francisco Herrera. Universidad de Cádiz.

Puede ser consultado el volumen 14, número 1 (marzo de 2011) del Boletín Mexicano de Historia y Filosofía de la Medicina en la siguiente dirección: http://new.medigraphic.com/ cgi-bin/contenido.cgi? IDREVISTA=73&IDPUBLICACION= 2997 Índice: Contenido Nota Editorial Ana Cecilia Rodríguez de Romo, Xóchitl Martínez Barbosa Trabajos Originales El médico sueco Anders Fredrik Regnell en el Brasil del siglo XIX. Pacientes, plantas y patrimonio Hernán Concha-Quezada Odontología del siglo XVI y la obra de Francisco Martínez de Castrillo Víctor Manuel Esponda Gaxiola, Lourdes C Aguilar Laurents Inicios de la historia de la medicina en México: influencias y relaciones con el extranjero (1935-1960) Xóchitl Martínez Barbosa La importancia de los documentos originales para el historiador Ana Cecilia Rodríguez de Romo Médicos mexicanos Dr. José Ignacio Duran de Huerta y Gastelú Humberto Gasca-González Casos y Cosas de la Medicina Mitos y ciencia: Brujería, herbol...

La Sociedad Cubana de Historia de la Ciencia y la Tecnología tiene ya su propio sitio web   www.schct.sld.cu   , que contiene información general sobre la Sociedad y sus actividades. También incluye los más recientes boletines publicados, así como otros textos y referencias en español y/o inglés. Son bienvenidos los comentarios de los visitantes al sitio, especialmente si contienen sugerencias útiles para su mejora a partir del presente modesto formato con que ahora se inicia. The Cuban Society of History of Science and Technology now has its own website   www.schct.sld.cu   , containing general information about the Society and its activities. It also includes the most recent bulletins published as well as other texts and references in Spanish and/or English. Comments from visitors to the website are welcome, especially if they convey useful suggestions for the improvement of its present modest format.

Call for Abstracts (PDF: http://www.wmich.edu/medicalhumanities/files/MedHum_CfA.pdf ) Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference September 29-30, 2011; Kalamazoo, Michigan www.wmich.edu/medicalhumanities Overview: Proponents of medical humanities contend that the humanistic dimensions of medicine and health are a critical component of those disciplines; not only do these dimensions help us to understand the very nature of medicine and health, their apprehension allows caregivers to relate to their patients, to treat those patients with respect and dignity, and to provide more holistic and empathetic care. The Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference aims to explore a range of themes within the medical humanities, though a primary focus will be on why medical humanities matter, whether in practice or in the training of our health care professionals. A secondary focus will be on what the medical humanities are; how is it that we delimit the attendant ...