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F5. Disability in America
Saturday May 3, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Gardner
F5. Disability in America 
Chair: Barron Lerner, New York University, Langone Health 
 
  1. Deirdre Cooper Owens, University of Connecticut: Harriet Tubman, Slavery & the Contours of Disability     
  2. Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison: These “Children Won’t Become Women”: Depo-Provera, Menstruation, and Mental Disability   
  3. Heather Dron, Sterilization & Social Justice Lab, UCLA Institute for Society & Genetics: Sonoma State Hospital at a Crossroads: Entangled Goals of Innovation, Care, & Prevention of Disability at Mid-Century (1950-1970)   
  4. Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania: The Other Disabled President: JFK’s Chronic Back Pain and Cover Up  
Moderators
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Barron Lerner

New York University Langone Medical Center
Speakers
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Emma Wathen

PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(she/her) I am a PhD candidate pursuing a joint degree in History and History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation looks at reproductive activism by and for disabled people in the twentieth-century United States. I am a cohost... Read More →
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Beth Linker

University of Pennsylvania
DC

Deirdre Cooper Owens

University of Connecticut
F5 Abstracts pdf
Saturday May 3, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Gardner Sheraton, Level 3
  Concurrent Session, Traditional Papers

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