Elizabeth Lunbeck

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.

Books

Lunbeck is the author or coauthor of books including:

The Americanization of Narcissism
Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America

Her edited volumes include:

Histories of Scientific Observation
Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
''Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine''

Awards

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