Beth Linker

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World War I soldier exhibiting flat foot

World War I physical therapist treating wounded soldier (from Strength and Science)

"Feet for Fighting:
Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America"
Winner of the 2005 Roy Porter Memorial Prize Essay

“Resuscitating the ‘Great Doctor’: The Career of Biography in Medical History”

“Strength and Science: Gender, Physiotherapy, and Medicine in Early Twentieth Century America”

“The Business of Ethics: Gender, Medicine, and the Professional Codification of the American
Physiotherapy Association, 1918-1935”

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

“Strength and Science: Gender, Physiotherapy, and Medicine in Early Twentieth Century America”
Journal of Women’s History 17:3 (Fall 2005): 105-132.

“The Business of Ethics: Gender, Medicine, and the Professional Codification of the American Physiotherapy Association, 1918-1935”
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 60 (July 2005): 321-354.

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Department of the History and Sociology of Science

American Association of the History of Medicine

History of Science Society

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

U.S. National Library of Medicine

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