Tag: injury prevention

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
Kathleen Bachynski

child safety, epidemiology, Ethics, injury prevention, sports injury
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, Joanna Paxton Federico

agnotology, gun violence, injury prevention, Risk perception, violence

Joanna Paxton Federico, a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers workshopped the first chapter of her dissertation, which explores the emergence of violence as an object of public health interest in the 1960s and early 1970s. Much of her project focuses on the production of ignorance (agnotology) around the effects of gun violence, and her work delves into…