Conjoined twins born before the advent of surgical separation techniques have long been of special interest to scientists. He investigataes the lives of the first recorded conjoined twins, Chang and Eng, and the lives of other, lesser known conjoined twins.
J. DAVID SMITH is Professor of Education and Human Development at Lynchburg College, Virginia. He recieved undergraduate and graduate degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University. He earned his doctorate at Columbia University. A former Peace Corps volunteer, Dr. Smith has also been a special education teacher and a counselor. He is the author of
Minds Made Feeble (1985) and
The Other Voices: Profiles of Women in the History of Special Education (1987), as well as numerous articles that have appeared in professional and academic journals. Dr. Smith and his wife, Joyce, are the parents of three children.