Beth Linker is Turning Good Posture On its Head

Key Facts

• In her new book, Beth Linker, a historian of science at the University of Pennsylvania, confronts conventional wisdom about good posture.
• Credit...Hannah Beier for The New York Times April 26, 2024, 5:01 a.m. ET For decades, the idea of standing properly upright carried considerable political and social baggage.
• In the early 20th century, posture exams became mainstays in the military, the workplace and schools, thanks in part to the American Posture League, a group of physicians, educators and health officials that formed in 1914.
• Dr. Linker, a historian and sociologist of science at the University of Pennsylvania, recently sat for an interview with The New York Times; the conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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