Beth Linker

Historian of Medicine, Disability, and the Body

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Selected Works

Books

War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America

Voted one of the top 100 Must-Read History of Medicine Books -Book Riot

"One of the most important and readable studies to appear in recent years" -Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"A rich and important history" -Journal of the American Medical Association

"Its relevance to today's challenging realities makes Linker's penetrating study of an earlier war relevant to a wide spectrum of potential readers." -Charles E. Rosenberg

Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, and Belonging

"Insightful, comprehensive, and personal" - Sex and Disability

"An illuminating and truly educational book." - Lennard Davis

"Civil Disabilities leaves no doubt that disability is central to the history, theory, and acts of citizenship." -Kim Nielson

Quick Links

Beth Linker @ Penn

Please visit my University of Pennsylvania faculty webpage

Beth Linker @ academia.edu

Access to many of my academic articles and syllabi