Tag: technology
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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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Working Group, Arwen Mohun
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…
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