Audrey B. Davis

Audrey B. Davis was an American historian of medicine, museum curator, and author associated with the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian records and features describe her as Curator of Medical Sciences at the National Museum of American History from 1967 to 1993, where she helped interpret the history of medicine for a broad public audience.

Her books include Medicine and Its Technology: An Introduction to the History of Medical Instrumentation and, with Richard A. Glenner and Stanley B. Burns, The American Dentist: A Pictorial History with a Presentation of Early Dental Photography in America. The work most often linked to her name shows a gift for making technical history visual, concrete, and readable.

Some sources list her birth year differently, so that detail is not entirely consistent online. What is clear is that her writing and curatorial work left a lasting mark on the study of medical and dental history, especially through the Smithsonian collections she helped shape.