Origins of An American Science of Occuptional Chemical Hazards

塞勒斯博士正在探索美国对职业化学品危害日益增长的担忧。他的研究集中在1900年至1930年期间这种担忧的起源，当时出现了一个新的专家群体来解决这个问题。塞勒斯博士正在研究影响这一新的专家群体崛起的技术、经济和社会变革，以及他们所扮演的角色。他的研究重点是：这一时期职业中毒的变化率及其在技术变革中的根源；企业代表对这一问题的态度演变及其培养新专业知识的责任；新专家与工人关系的转变，新出现的职业病补偿制度，以及更成熟的工程专业。作为他的专业发展奖学金的一部分，塞勒斯博士正在约翰霍普金斯大学与经济历史学家路易斯·加兰波斯教授和技术历史学家斯图尔特·莱斯利博士一起工作，他们在各自的专业领域提供培训，并帮助指导他的研究。塞勒斯博士的目标是分析工作场所变化中新科学的起源，以及科学专业人员在企业和技术驱动的经济中为自己建立自主角色的努力。这项工作将阐明这门科学在环境史和现代“组织社会”出现中的重要性。

Dr. Sellers is exploring the growing concern about occupational chemical hazards in the United States. His study concentrates on the origins of this concern in the period from 1900-1930 when a new community of experts arose to address this problem. Dr. Sellers is examining the technological, economic and social changes influencing the rise of this new community of experts and role they came to play. He is focusing on: the changing rates of occupational poisonings in this period and their roots in technological change; the evolving attitude of corporate representatives toward this problem and their responsibility for fostering the new expertise; and the new experts' shifting relations with workers, the emerging compensation system for occupational disease, and the more established profession of engineering. As part of his professional development fellowship, Dr. Sellers is working at Johns Hopkins University with the economic historian, Professor Louis Galambos, and the historian of technology, Dr. Stuart Leslie who are providing training in their specialties and are helping to guide his research. Dr. Sellers goal is to analyze the origins of the new science in workplace change and in scientific professionals' efforts to establish an autonomous role for themselves with a corporate and technology- driven economy. This work will elucidate the importance of this science in environmental history and in the emergence of modern "organizational society."