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Beth Linker

@BethLinker

Author, Historian of Science, Medicine & Disability. Professor @Penn. Book #Slouch @PrincetonUPress. Byline Time, Boston Globe, Huffpo. Rep. @jkpapin

Philadelphia, PA Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Beth Linker
Beth Linker@BethLinker·
@ClareMalone I teach a class related to this at Penn. Would be great to talk.
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Clare Malone
Clare Malone@ClareMalone·
Some news!! 📢 📚 I'm excited to build on my New Yorker reporting and delve even more into this movement that's reshaping American life and politics before our eyes.
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MHS Research
MHS Research@MHS_Research·
The next seminar in our History of Women, Gender, & Sexuality series (Thur, 3 Apr, @ 5pm, EDT) features @SevenPaperclips's "'The Permanent Prize for Nerve': Examining Women's Postwar Battles with the US Veteran's Bureau." @bethlinker commenting. Register: masshist.org/events/permane…
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John P. DiMoia
John P. DiMoia@JohnDiMoia·
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Zoe Adams
Zoe Adams@zoe_m_adams·
In my review of @BethLinker's history of posture for @thenation, I talk barre class, slouching over desktops in residency (we sit more than we stand), and whether our obsession with posture is a moral panic, pseudoscience, or something in between. thenation.com/article/cultur…
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Aeon Magazine
Aeon Magazine@aeonmag·
That erect posture is good for you is a truism that we rarely examine or question. But this modern obsession has dubious origins. In today’s Idea, an expert examines the science of posture @BethLinker psyche.co/ideas/in-defen…
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Daniel Blackie
Daniel Blackie@daniel_blackie·
1/ As there's been some chatter about disability, work & Marx on here lately & the theme of this year's #UKDHM (which starts tomorrow!) is 'Disability,Livelihood & Employment', reckon now might be a good time to re-read this interesting article @SJDResearch.
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Beth Linker
Beth Linker@BethLinker·
@JenSeniorNY Well your piece from this week had an impact. Trying to think of a way to teach it and operationalize the vision at the university level.
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Jennifer Senior
Jennifer Senior@JenSeniorNY·
@BethLinker I stopped. Abandoned a Monday op-ed column at the NYT precisely because I wasn’t cut out for this sort of thing.
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Jennifer Senior
Jennifer Senior@JenSeniorNY·
The volume of past-election analyses is so overwhelming today that I think all I can manage is Wordle.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press@PrincetonUPress·
The annual @hssonline meeting comes to a close today, but there's still time to visit us at table 7 if you haven’t yet! Browse through our latest selection of titles and save 30% (in the US & Canada) through November 30 with code EXH30. #HSS24
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