Education
B.A. College of Wooster, 1973. History major,
French minor.
M.A. University of Delaware, 1976. History of
Technology, 1974-76.
Ph.D. University of Delaware, 1981. History of
Technology
Awards and scholarships
Hagley Fellow, 1974-78.
Fulbright-Hays Fellow, Paris, France, 1978-79.
Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for outstanding dissertation
in the humanities, University of Delaware, 1981.
Smithsonian Institution Research Fellow, 1988.
F. C. Clark Wood Fellow, College of Physicians
of Philadelphia, 1990.
Wellcome Museum Fellow, Science Museum, London,
1992.
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Museum positions
1973: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Intern
in Department of Decorative Arts.
1974-80: Hagley Museum, Wilmington, Delaware,
intern and part time guide.
1975: Historian, Delaware Survey, co-sponsored
by Hagley Museum and by Historic American Engineering
Record, National Park Service.
1978: Assistant to Hagley Graduate Program Coordinator.
Researcher for Hagley Library, at Academie des
Sciences, Paris.
1980: Assistant to Director of Hagley Museum.
Organizer and co-leader of Hagley Graduate Program
study tour of technical museums and early industrial
sites in France.
1981 to present: Dittrick Museum of Medical History,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Associate Curator (1981). Responsible for artifact
and picture collections. Included all aspects
of collection management -- registration, cataloguing,
research, and exhibition -- and education program.
Also involved preparation of budget for special
projects and supervision of museum studies and
library science student practica and museum assistant
and volunteers.
1982 to present: Curator. Responsibilities same
as above, with addition of supervising position
of Collections Manager. Principal achievements
include implementation of new interpretive program;
planning, design, and construction of new main
gallery entitled "Medicine in the Western
Reserve since 1800;" creation of study-storage
gallery focusing on the development of therapeutic
technologies in medicine from 1800 to the present;
and the preparation of a series of traveling exhibits
for circulation to medical and educational institutions
in the greater Cleveland area. The above efforts
were crucial to the re-accreditation of the Dittrick
Museum by the American Association of Museums
in 1984.
Have since 1985 been involved in teaching at
CWRU, and research and publication on medical
artifacts.
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Teaching
1971-72: College of Wooster, teaching assistant,
Department of History.
1977: University of Delaware, teaching assistant.
History of science, under Prof. George Basalla.
1981-present: Case Western Reserve University,
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Program in
the History of Technology and Science, Department
of History.
1988-present. CWRU School of Medicine. Provide
orientation for first year preceptor groups, teach
electives in the history of medicine, and direct
area of concentration students and independent
study projects.
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Professional activities
Board of Editors, Caduceus: A Humanities Journal
for Medicine and the Health Sciences, 1987-97.
Handerson Medical History Society, Secretary-Treasurer,
1981+; President 1994-96.
Ohio Academy of Medical History. Vice President,
1997-
Society for the History of Technology, Technology
Museums Special Interest Group, Program Chairman,
1984; Awards Committee, 1982-86; and Dibner Prize
Committee, 1993
Northeast Ohio Inter-Museum Council, Delegate,
1981+; Trustee, 1984-86; Chair, nominating committee,
1993.
European Association of Museums of History of
Medical Sciences, 1984+
Medical Museums Association, Membership Secretary,
1985-92; Vice President, 1987-89; and President,
1989-91.
Medical Collectors Association, 1987+
American Association for the History of Medicine,
Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee,
1991; Publications Committee, 1991+
Ohio Academy of Medical History, Vice President,
1997-
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Publications
Surgical Garb, 1870-1920. Cleveland, Ohio:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library, 1982.
"A Recent Museum Acquisition: an `Iron Lung',"
Bulletin of the Cleveland Medical Library Association
28, 2 (Fall/Winter, 1982): 14-15.
"Medical Education in the Western Reserve,
1810-1910," CWRU Medical Alumni Bulletin
46, 2 (Spring, 1983): 4-9.
"New Exhibit at the Howard Dittrick Museum:
a 1927 Engeln Tilting X-/ray Table," Bulletin
of the Cleveland Medical Library Association
29, 2 (Fall/Winter, 1983): 12-14.
"Changes in the Dittrick Museum," Bulletin
of the Cleveland Medical Library Association
30, 1 (Spring/Summer, 1984): 23-25.
"Medical Objects for the Non-specialist:
the Interpretive Challenge," Proceedings
of the Second Symposium of the European Association
of Museums of History of Medical Sciences
(London, 1984): 117-19.
Nineteenth Century Surgical Instruments: A
Catalogue of the Gustav Weber Collection at the
Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine.
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Health Sciences Library,
1986.
From Mecanicien to Ingenieur: Technical Education
and the Machine Building Industry in Nineteenth
Century France. New York: Garland Publishing,
1986.
"The Medical Period Room," Caduceus
3, 4 (Winter, 1987): 26-43.
"Charles Truax, The Mechanics of Surgery,
and the Development of the American Surgical Instrument
Industry," introduction to reprint of 1899
edition of Charles Truax, The Mechanics of
Surgery. San Francisco: Norman Publishing,
1988.
[Translation of] Urs Boschung, "Joseph-Frederic-Benoit
Charriere (1803-1876): Paris Surgical Instrument
Maker from Switzerland," Caduceus
4, 2 (Summer, 1988): 34-46.
"Charriere Instruments in America,"
Caduceus 4, 2 (Summer, 1988): 47-57.
"Asepsis and the Transformation of Surgical
Instruments, 1885-1900," Medical Collectors
Association Newsletter No. 13 (July, 1988).
[with co-author F. Terry Hambrecht, M.D.] "George
Tiemann & Co., the American Armamentarium
Chirurgicum, and the American Surgical Instrument
Trade," introduction to reprint of 1889 edition
of George Tiemann & Co., American Armamentarium
Chirurgicum. San Francisco: Norman Publishing,
1989.
"Charles Spencer (1813-1881), microscope
maker," Journal of Laboratory and Clinical
Medicine 114, 1 (July, 1989): 93-94.
"Gastric freezing: the view a quarter century
later," Journal of Laboratory and Clinical
Medicine 114, 5 (November, 1989): 613-14.
[With co-author Douglas J. Lanska, M.D.] "The
Suspension Therapy for Tabes Dorsalis: A Case
History of a Therapeutic Fad," Archives
of Neurology 47 (1990): 701-04.
"Dr. Dittrick's Museum," Caduceus
6, 3 (Winter, 1990): 1-25.
"History of the instruments for gastointestinal
endoscopy," Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
37, 2 (March/April Supplement, 1991): 27-56.
"Asepsis and the Transformation of Surgical
Instruments," Transactions and Studies
of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Ser. 5 13, 1 (Spring, 1991): 75-91.
"Sterilizing Surgical Instruments: A Curator's
Perspective," Caduceus 7, 2 (Autumn,
1991): 32-38.
"Artifacts and Archives: Groves' Amputating
Knife," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
7 (1991): 289-91.
"The American surgical instrument industry,
1880-1916: the impact of asepsis and European
importation," Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium
of the European Association of Museums of History
of Medical Sciences (Leiden, 1992), 69-79.
"Historical perspective on sciatica,"
in Russell Hardy, ed., Lumbar Disc Disease.
New York: Raven Press, 1993, 1-4.
[with co-author William S. Haubrich, M. D.] "History
of Endoscopy," in Michael V. Sivak, Jr.,
ed., Gastroenterologic Endoscopy, 2nd.
ed. Baltimore: W. B. Saunders Co., 1993.
"Learning from the artifact: surgical instruments
as resources in the history of medicine and medical
technology," Caduceus 9,2 (Autumn,
1993): 87-98.
"Documentation of instruments and their
makers," Watermark 16, 4 (Fall, 1993),
63-65.
"United States patents for medical devices:
patterns of inventive activity in the nineteenth
century," Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium
of the European Association of Museums of History
of Medical Sciences (Zurich, 1994).
"Endoscope." article in Robert Bud
and Deborah Warner, eds., Instruments of Science:
An Historical Encyclopedia. London: the Science
Museum, 1997.
Introductory essay for reprint editions of Snowden
& Brother, Catalogue of Surgical and Dental
Instruments, Elastic Trusses, Medical Saddle Bags,
Abdominal Supporters, Shoulder Braces and Druggists
Sundries (Philadelphia, 1860) and John Weiss
and Son, A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments,
Apparatus, Appliances, Etc. (London, 1863).
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1997.
American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated
History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of
Instrument Makers to 1900.. San Francisco:
Norman Publishing, 1997.
"Past Tense: History and the ASGE,"
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 47, 1 (January,
1998).
An Interactive History of the Instruments
of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Historical
Center of the Health Sciences, University of Michigan,
1998).
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Consultant and Guest Curator
1985: Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland,
Ohio - guest curator for exhibit
1986: Hoover Historical Center, North Canton,
Ohio - consultant for interpretive exhibit design
1986 and 1989: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission - furnishing plan for doctor's office
in Eckley Miners Village and guest curator for
exhibit at same site
1988: University of Cincinnati Medical Heritage
Center - museum design consultant
1990: Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,
Virginia - NEH planning grant consultant
1990: St. Louis Science Center - assessment of
medical artifact collections
1991: West Chester Co. Hist. Soc., West Chester,
Pennsylvania - assessment of medical artifact
collection
1991: Medical Museum, University of Iowa Hospitals
and Clinics - MAP I (AAM) reviewer
1993: National Museum of Dentistry, Baltimore,
Maryland - exhibit planning consultant
1994: Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland,
Ohio - long range planning consultant
1995: Cleveland Health Museum - exhibit consultant
1996: North Carolina Museum of History - exhibit
script reviewer
1996: Melnick Medical Museum, Youngstown, Ohio
- museum planning consultant
1998: New York Academy of Medicine - collections
assessment and planning consultant
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