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Elizabeth Lunbeck

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Elizabeth Lunbeck is an American historian. She is Professor of the History of Science in Residence in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University.[1]

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Elizabeth Lunbeck
EducationDuke University
Harvard University
OccupationHistorian
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Books

Lunbeck is the author or coauthor of books including:

  • The Americanization of Narcissism (2014)[2]
  • Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912 (with Bennett Simon, 2003)[3]
  • The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (1994)[4]

Her edited volumes include:

  • Histories of Scientific Observation (edited with Lorraine Daston, 2011)[5]
  • Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (edited with Angela Creager and M. Norton Wise, 2007)[6]
  • Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine (edited with Angela Creager and Londa Schiebinger, 2001)[7]

Awards

Her book The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (1994) received the 1995 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize.[8]

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