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)

Selected Book and Article Publications

A Dangerous Curve: The Role of History in America's Scoliosis Screening Programs

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"Shooting Disabled Soldiers: Medicine and Photography in World War I America"

"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”

Selected Articles

A Dangerous Curve: The Role of History in America's Scoliosis Screening Programs

American Journal of Public Health (2012)

"Shooting Disabled Soldiers: Medicine and Photography in World War I America"

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (2010)

"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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The Sigerist Circle

Department of the History and Sociology of Science

American Association of the History of Medicine

The Disability History Association

History of Science Society

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

U.S. National Library of Medicine

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