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

9310717约翰逊该奖项为与会者提供部分支持，让他们参加一个会议，讨论“危险、风险和安全：工业化社会中的想法和实践”这一主题的研究想法和结果。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。博物馆的商业、技术和社会历史中心、技术历史学会和美国医学史协会共同主办了这次会议。宾夕法尼亚州立出版社已经表示有兴趣发表这些论文。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交流意见，并考虑未来研究的方向。尽管社会对风险和安全问题的关注越来越多，对社会应对这些危险的尝试的概念和预期也在不断变化，但风险的历史研究仍然是一个相对被忽视的学术领域。在劳动力、技术或职业健康的历史专业中的孤立，几乎不会导致对该主题的综合概述。这次会议将有助于在这些专业的研究生和知名学者之间建立联系，并在这些问题上创造更丰富和更集中的交流。***

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. ***