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National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
AHB 5034 MRC 627
Washington, DC 20013-7012
ottk@si.edu
Education
B.U.S. (1976) University of New Mexico; Ph.D. (1991) Temple University
Research
Interests
History of the body, disability, ethnic and folk medicine, integrative and alternative medicine, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, dermatology, medical technology, prosthetics and rehabilitation, sexuality; visual and material culture, ephemera
Current
Research Projects
History of dermatology and skin; history of disability; history of prosthetics, medical technology and the body
Current
or Projected Exhibits
Whatever Happened to Polio?, americanhistory.si.edu/polio; History of dermatology and skin; history of the disability rights movement, americanhistory.si.edu/disabilityrights; Inventing Ourselves, invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/inventingourselves/
Current
Publications
Fevered Lives, Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870 (Harvard, 1996)
Artificial Parts and Practical Lives, The Modern History of Prosthetics (co-editor, New York University Press,2002)
The Public Historian, special disability issue, co-editor, (vol. 27, Spring, 2005)
Scrapbooks in American Life, co-editor (Temple University Press, 2006)
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