Participant Info
- First Name
- Beth
- Last Name
- Linker
- Country
- United States
- State
- PA
- linker@upenn.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Pennsylvania
- Website URL
- https://www.bethlinker.com/
- Keywords
- disability, medicine, public health, eugenics, surgery, evolutionary medicine, fitness, sports, scoliosis, back pain
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Beth Linker, a former physical therapist, is an author and professor of the history of science, disability, and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America, reveals the little-known and surprising origins of our fears and ideas about poor posture. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Time, Psyche, The New England Journal of Medicine, and U.S.A. Today.
- Recent Publications
- Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton)
- “Disability Futures, Scientific Ableism, and the Making of Modern Epidemics” Osiris, edited by Mara Mills, Sarah Rose, Jaipreet Virdi (2024): 261-279.
- “Twist and Shout: Music, Race, and Medical Moralization,” with Hannah Yusuf. Nursing Clio.
- “Actually, It’s OK to Slouch.” Time.com.
- “The Power of Creating Archival Silences.” Princeton Ideas.
- “Toward a History of Ableness.” All of Us. A Blog for the Disability History Association.
- “The VA: Trouble from the Start.” Boston Globe.
- Media Coverage
- The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, TLS, the Nation and more
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Disability, Gender, Medicine, Science, Sports, Technology, Women, World War I
