Tag: regulation
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Working Group, Alexander Parry
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,…
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Protected: Unsafe America Syllabus
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Working Group, Po-Hsun Chen
Po-Hsun Chen, a practicing physician in Taiwan who received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, presented an article draft based on the fourth chapter of his dissertation, which examines the perception and regulation of toxic herbal medicines in East and Southeast Asia. The session focused on the problems of toxicity and the identities of traditional…
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Rethinking Injuries Conference
The “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society” conference took place at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore, MD) and online from March 7 to March 9, 2024. The conference covered the perception, control, representation, and experience of injuries and involved participants from several institutions, academic fields, and professions. For the…