Conference on "Danger Risk and Safety in Industrial and Industrializing Societies,". Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE,Oct. 13-14, 1993

9310717 Johnson该奖项为参与者参加会议并讨论“危险，风险和安全：工业化社会的思想和实践”主题的研究思想和结果提供部分支持。会议将在特拉华州威尔明顿的哈格利博物馆和图书馆举行。该博物馆的商业、技术和社会史中心、技术史学会和美国医学史协会共同主办了这次会议。宾夕法尼亚州立大学出版社表示有兴趣出版这些论文。会议将汇集来自不同背景的学者，就风险概念的历史构建及其当前的政策影响分享意见，并考虑未来的研究方向。尽管社会对风险和安全问题的关注越来越多，并且社会试图处理这些危险的观念和期望也在不断变化，但对风险的历史研究仍然是一个相对被忽视的学术领域。孤立的历史专业化的劳动，技术，或职业健康导致很少的方式综合概述的主题。这次会议将有助于在研究生和这些专业的知名学者之间建立联系，并在这些问题上创造一个更丰富、更集中的交流。＊＊＊

9310717 Johnson This award provides partial support for participants to attend a conference and discuss research ideas and results on the topic of "Danger, Risk and Safety: Ideas and Practices in Industrializing Societies." The conference will occur at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the museum, and the Society for the History of Technology and the American Association for the History of Medicine are co-sponsoring the conference. Penn State Press has expressed interest in publishing the papers. The conference will bring together scholars from a variety of backgrounds to share ideas about the historical construction of the concept of risk and its current policy implications and to consider directions for future research. Despite increasing social attention to questions of risk and safety, and changing conceptions and expectations about social attempts to deal with these dangers, the historical study of risk remains a relatively neglected area of scholarship. Isolation within historical specializations of labor, technology, or occupational health results in little in the way of synthetic overview of the topic. This conference will help to forge connections between graduate students and established scholars in a variety of these specialities, and to create a richer and more focussed exchange on these issues. ***