The Society's Annual General Meeting will take place online on Friday 22nd September between 3-4pm (UK time). This meeting will formally accept the 2022 accounts, offer updates on recent events and initiatives and announce the 2022 Roy Porter Essay Competition winners. The agenda and papers for the meeting will be made available on the Society's website a week before.
The SSHM Lecture
Dr Beth Linker (University of Pennsylvania) ‘Disability Futures and Modern Epidemics’
Free, Online, 4-5pm UK time
Immediately after the AGM and the announcement of this year’s Roy Porter Prize winner and those shortlisted, the SSHM Lecture will mark the place of the Prize in the social histories of medicine, mental health, and disability. We’re delighted to announce that Dr Beth Linker (University of Pennsylvania) is delivering the Lecture. Dr Linker won the 2005 Roy Porter Prize with her essay, later published in our journal; ‘Feet for Fighting: Locating Disability and Social Medicine in First World War America’ is available to read for free via the Social History of Medicine website.
Speaker Biography
Beth Linker is Department Chair and the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America and co-editor of Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Membership, Belonging. Her forthcoming book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2024) is a historical account of how poor posture became a dreaded pathology in the United States in the wake of the Darwinian revolution and continued to be seen as a serious health threat affecting a majority of Americans throughout the twentieth century.
The meeting and lecture will be delivered via Zoom, details will be emailed to those registered via Eventbrite, two days before and again two hours before the event starts.
