Michael Sappol

National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD

February–June 2008

Michael Sappol is curator and historian in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine. His areas of expertise are nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural history, the history of medicine (with a special focus on the history of anatomy), and film and media studies. He is editor, with David Cantor and Paul Theerman, of volume 1 of a multi-volume DVD series of historical medical films (Public Health Films Go to War) for the National Library of Medicine, and The Human Body in the Age of Empire, 1800-1920, which is projected to be volume 5 of A Cultural History of the Human Body (New York). At the Clark, Sappol will be working on "Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) and the Origins of Modernist Medical Illustration in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century Germany and America."