Beth Linker

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Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
History & Sociology of Science

Beth Linker teaches courses in the history of medicine and science at UPenn’s History and Sociology of Science Department. She received her Ph.D. in May 2006 from Yale University (Department of History, Program in Science and Medicine). Her research interests include the social and cultural history of U.S. medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, disability history, war studies, gender studies, as well as the history of bioethics and health care policy.

Her current projects include:

The Roots of Rehabilitation: Reconstructing Disabled Soldiers in World War I America (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).

Globalizing Disability: World War I and the Making of Modern Rehabilitation, co-edited with Heather Perry, Ph.D. (book proposal under review).

Slouch: The Rise and Fall of American Posture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America (work in progress).


Selected Publications

"Feet for Fighting: Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America"
Social History of Medicine 20, no. 1 (April 2007): 91-109.
“Resuscitating the ‘Great Doctor’: The Career of Biography in Medical History”
In Thomas Söderqvist, ed., The History and Poetics of Scientific Biography(Aldershoot: Ashgate Press, 2007): 221-239



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