Slouch: Posture Panic in America
In her recent book, “Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America,” Beth Linker tells the incredible story of 20th-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic. During this decades-long episode, it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences.
Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, Slouch also tells how this period continues to feed today’s widespread anxieties about posture.
Agenda
• 6pm–7pm | Lecture
• 7pm-8pm | Reception
About Beth Linker
Beth Linker, a former physical therapist, is the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. Her teaching interests include the history of science, disability, and medicine, and her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Time, Psyche, The New England Journal of Medicine, and USA Today.
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