Debbie Weinstein is a historian of modern American science and medicine. Her research and teaching interests include the history of medicine, psychiatry, and the human sciences; gender and sexuality studies; disability studies; and critical military studies. Her book, The Pathological Family: Postwar America and the Rise of Family Therapy, was published by Cornell University Press in 2013. Her current book project examines changing social scientific understandings of human nature and war during the 20th century. She served as director of the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program and associate director of the Pembroke Center at Brown prior to joining the department of American Studies.
