Manifesting Medicine

By fostering a high level of curatorial scholarship, the Smithsonian Institution has long been known as a "university without students." It is, therefore, fitting that the Smithsonian, in association with London's Science Museum and the Deutsches Museum in Munich, should take the lead in presenting the fruit of recent scholarship in the history of medical technology and medical museology. Manifesting Medicine is the inaugural volume in their jointly sponsored series entitled "Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology." This collection of essays provides a welcome sampler of efforts to wrest cultural meaning from mute medical artifacts, and to assess the changing role of museums in that process

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