Author Description

Increasingly, historians & museum curators are using technological artifacts as expressions of human culture. Reflecting the broad scope of interaction between science, technology & society, they can help us see not just machines, but also imaginative worlds of the past. Building on this growing interest, three of the world's greatest depositories of material heritage in the history of technology - the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in London & the Smithsonian Institution in Washington - are cooperating in the new series of publications which explores the use of objects as resources in the study of the history of science, technology & medicine. Each volume will examine a wide range of uses of objects but will focus on a particular area of study. With its focus on modern technology, Manifesting Medicine is a history of medicine with a difference. The authors have striven to show that those who today encounter the artifacts of this book, in its pages & even perhaps "in the flesh," will be confronting big subjects: blood, life, danger, & conception. All those interested in how medicine affects the culture of the healthy well as the fate of the sick will find this volume of interest.