¹ The museum is a division of the National Museum of Technology in Oslo and opened officially in June 2003. See http://www.tekniskmuseum.no/medisinskmuseum/index.htm

² The medical faculties in the universities of Bergen and Oslo have recently established dedicated professorships in medical history. See also the website of the research group in Bergen. http://www.rokkansenteret.uib.no/vr/HMH/

³ For example, this perspective was completely absent in the official history that marked the centenary of the Norwegian Physicians Association. Øivind Larsen, Ole Berg, and Fritz Hodne, Legene og samfunnet, Oslo, Universitetet i Oslo, 1986.

⁴ Commissioned histories to mark jubilees of towns, institutions, organizations, companies and the like are very common in Norway; they are usually written by university-trained historians. See William H Hubbard, et al. (eds), Making a historical culture: historiography in Norway, Oslo, Scandanavian University Press, 1995.

⁵ Peter Baldwin, Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830–1930, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 563.