Tag: Risk perception

Arwen P. Mohun

home safety, Risk perception, risk taking, technology, workplace safety
Po-Hsun Chen

drug safety, East Asia, regulation, Risk perception
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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Working Group, Arwen Mohun

Risk perception, simulation, technology, uncertainty, war, workplace safety

Arwen Mohun from the University of Delaware presented an article draft related to her project on indoor air pollution titled “Injured by Bad Air: Submarine Medicine, Industrial Hygiene, and the Invention of an Atmospheric Anthropocene.” The article concerned the efforts of the U.S. Navy to study the effects of emergency ascents from submarines and to…
Working Group, Po-Hsun Chen

East Asia, regulation, Risk perception, toxicity, uncertainty

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…
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…
Rethinking Injuries Conference

accidents, health humanities, law, methods, regulation, Risk perception, visual arts, workplace safety

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…