Beth Linker is a science historian. She is Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Life edit
She was a physical therapist.[2] She graduated from Yale University.[3]
She was a awarded a NEH Fellowship and ACLS Fellowship.[4][5]
Her writing has appeared in Time,[6]
Works edit
- War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America (Chicago, 2011) [7][8][9][10][11]
- Smith, Rogers M.; Dudziak, Mary L. (2015). Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4667-4. JSTOR j.ctt13x1p0p.
- Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2024) [12][13][14][15]
References edit
- ^ "Beth Linker | History and Sociology of Science". hss.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Disability in America". Penn Today. 2023-08-03. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "AHA Member Spotlight: Beth Linker | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Beth Linker: NEH Fellowship". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Beth Linker". ACLS. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Actually, It's OK to Slouch". TIME. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Beth Linker on War's Waste in new documentary". pressblog.uchicago.edu. October 30, 2015.
- ^ Reznick, Jeffrey S. (2013). "War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America by Beth Linker (review)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 87 (4): 703–704. ISSN 1086-3176.
- ^ "War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America | Reviews in History". reviews.history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Caruso, David (2013). "War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America by Beth Linker (review)". Technology and Culture. 54 (1): 198–200. ISSN 1097-3729.
- ^ "Brian on Linker, 'War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America' | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca (2024-04-08). "The Truth Behind the Slouching Epidemic". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Lanks, Belinda. "'Slouch' Review: The Panic Over Posture". WSJ. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ "Examining 20th-century America's obsession with poor posture, a forgotten 'epidemic'". Penn Today. 2018-06-07. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Won, Grace (2024-03-25). "Beth Linker's Book 'Slouch' Recounts History of 'Posture Panic' | KQED". www.kqed.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.