Curator
National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
MRC 627
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
aottk@si.edu
Research Interests
History of the body, disability, ethnic and folk medicine, integrative and alternative medicine, ophthalmology, plastic surgery and dermatology, medical technology, prosthetics and rehabilitation, sexuality; visual and material culture, ephemera.
Current Research Projects
History of disability; history of universal design, historical use of scarapbooks, history of prosthetics, medical technology and the body.
Current or Projected Exhibits
History of medicine; history of the disability rights movement (on exhibit 7/2000-7/2001), history of disability, polio.
Recent 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, (forthcoming);
Glued to the Page: Scrapbooks in America, co-editor (Smithsonian Institution Press, forthcoming).