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Michael Sappol, Ph.D., Historian
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Michael Sappol is a historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, MD, and the author of A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in 19th-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2002). He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1997. His scholarly work focuses on the cultural history of the body; the history of anatomy and medical representations and displays of the body; the history of alternative and popular medicine; the history of medical film. In 2003, he curated Dream Anatomy, an exhibition on the history of evocative anatomical illustration and display, and in 2006 Visible Proofs, an exhibition on the history of forensic medicine. He currently lives in Washington, DC and New York City. CV(PDF) |
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Michael Sappol, Ph.D. Historian, History of Medicine Division National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bldg. 38, Rm. 1E-21 Bethesda, MD 20894 sappolm@mail.nih.gov 301.594.0348 office 201.402.0872 fax |
Last reviewed: 20 April 2009
Last updated: 20 April 2009
First published: 31 August 2006
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