Martha H. Verbrugge

Presidential Professor

102 Carnegie Building
(570) 577-3862
email: verbrgge@bucknell.edu
Fax (570) 577-3110

Fall 2013 office hours:
to be announced.

 

Martha H. Verbrugge teaches courses in the history of science and the history of medicine and public health as well as seminars on gender, science, and medicine. Her research focuses on women's health and physical education in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Active Bodies: A History of Women's Physical Education in Twentieth-Century America, Oxford University Press, 2012.

ISBN13: 9780195168792

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Able-Bodied Womanhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Oxford University Press, 1988.
ISBN13: 9780195051247

 

Awarded the History of Women in Science Prize, by the History of Science Society, 1991.

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