Tag: history

[Upcoming] Working Group, Diana Anselmo

history, immigration, suicide, trauma, violence

Diana Anselmo, a film and media studies researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, will be presenting her current project on the experiences of working-class immigrant women during the 1910s. She will provide a microhistorical account of the physical, mental, and social injuries inflicted on a working-class immigrant woman who eventually committed suicide in Chicago.
Working Group, Kaushiki Arha

history, law, trauma, violence

Kaushiki Arha, a Ph.D. candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, presented part of her dissertation project, which explores the gendered legal and social adjudication of sexual violence in India. Her project considers how the changing definition of rape from a physical assault to a violation of consent has paradoxically made prosecuting cases of sexual violence more difficult.
Working Group, Alexander Parry

history, home safety, injury prevention, product safety, regulation, technology

Alex Parry from the University of Rochester Medical Center presented a draft proposal for his book project Home Safe Home: Housework, Consumption, Regulation, and the Making of Home Injury Prevention, c. 1910–1980. His project charts the history of product safety and shows how accidents affected life at home. He discusses how and why Americans relied on education,…
Stephen Casper

history, injury prevention, sports injury, traumatic brain injuries, workplace safety
Mike Esbester

accidents, history, home safety, injury prevention, railway safety
Joanna Paxton Federico

child safety, data, gun violence, history, injury prevention, uncertainty
Mrunmayee Satam

history, injury prevention, technology, workers compensation, workplace safety
Working Group, Katarina Sawtelle

diagnosis, drowning, first aid, history, Risk perception, water safety

Katarina Sawtelle, an anesthesiologist at MaineHealth and an M.A. graduate from Johns Hopkins, presented an article based on her thesis, which examines the life-saving efforts of the British Royal Humane Society from the late-1700s to early-1800s. Her talk described some of the public spaces where these life-saving activities occurred and changing historical ideas about the drowned and…
Protected: Unsafe America Syllabus

accidents, disasters, history, injury control, regulation, Risk perception

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Alexander Parry

child safety, consumer product safety, history, home safety, regulation, technology
Working Group, Jonathan Reinarz

disasters, first aid, history, simulation

Jonathan Reinarz from the University of Birmingham delivered a presentation based on his current collaborative research project with Gayle Davis at the University of Edinburgh titled “Simulating Injuries in Twentieth-Century British First Aid.” Jonathan introduced our conversation with some context about the British Casualties Union, which was formed during WWII and used realistic simulations to…