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Contributors ELSPETH BROWN is an assistant professor of history at the University of Toronto, Canada, where she teaches courses in American social and cultural history. Her essay is drawn from her recently completed dissertation , “The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Culture, 1884–1929.” ALEX FAULKNER is a research fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and coordinator of the Health and Social Care Research Support Unit, a joint venture between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine. His research interests include the sociology of health, health technology policy, and issues in the history, innovation, and regulation of medical devices. KIRSTEN E. GARDNER is an assistant professor of history and gender studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is currently working on a history of female cancer awareness programs in the United States, 1910s–1970s. ELIZABETH HAIKEN is the author of Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994 and has taught at the University of Tennessee and the University of British Columbia. She now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. STEVEN KURZMAN is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently completing his dissertation based on ethnographic fieldwork in the American prosthetics field, and has also done research on prostheses in India and Cambodia. JENNIFER DAVIS Mc DAID is an archives research coordinator at the Library of Virginia, where she has worked since 1991. She earned a master ’s degree from the College of William and Mary. 349 STEPHEN MIHM is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at New York University. He is presently writing a cultural history of counterfeiting in antebellum America. KATHERINE OTT is a curator in the Science, Medicine, and Society Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution . She is the author of Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. She has taught university courses on the history of the body and sexuality, material culture and museums, and has developed exhibits on maxillofacial surgery, the disability rights movement, and other topics in American culture. HEATHER R. PERRY is a doctoral candidate in history at Indiana University . She is currently working on a dissertation entitled “Re-Arming the Disabled: Medicine, Masculinity and Social Organization in World War I Germany.” She has also served as a research fellow at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Frauenforschung at the Christian-Albrechts-Universit ät zu Kiel, Germany, where she conducted research for this essay. DAVID SERLIN is an assistant professor of history and American studies at Albright College. He is the author of the forthcoming Replaceable You: Engineering the American Body after World War Two, and an editor and columnist for the journal Cabinet. He lives in Reading, Pennsylvania , and Brooklyn, New York. RAMAN SRINIVASAN earned his B.S. in materials science at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1994 he returned to India and cofounded one of India’s first Internet portals. A former Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation, Srinivasan is currently the director of strategic alliances at Ramco Systems, one of India’s leading software companies. He is also deeply involved in the study of Asian elephants. DAVID WALDSTREICHER is the author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776–1820, and is now working on Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. He teaches history at the University of Notre Dame. 350 CONTRIBUTORS ...

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