He is the author of American Surgical Instruments: An Illustrated History of Their Manufacture and a Directory of Makers to 1900 (1997), medicine A Companion to American Technology (2005), Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine, 1880-1930 (2009), co-authored with John Harley Warner (Yale). He is currently the American liaison and secretary general of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences