Alex is a historian of science, technology, and medicine and the coordinator of the Injury Studies Network. His first book charts U.S. consumer product safety from 1910 to 1980 and shows how unintentional injuries affected life at home. He argues that Americans have historically relied on education, markets, and engineering to control home injuries, singling out domestic labor and technology as causes of and solutions to the problem of accidents. His work has been published in Technology and Culture, Isis, and the Washington Post.
