Strategizing Transdisciplinarity: From Exposure Assessment to Exposure Analysis (in the United States).

这项研究将记录和分析人类暴露科学的新兴领域，进行深入的访谈和参与者观察，以了解环境健康科学中的跨学科合作是如何形成和维持的。接触科学的目的是了解人类在其环境中接触致病物质的复杂机制。暴露科学的实践需要广泛的科学家和工程师之间的跨学科合作，因为它涉及的研究问题超出了任何一门科学学科的狭隘专业。近年来，新的技术，特别是由不同的制度机制支持的个人监测、建模和生物标志物的技术，促进了该领域的快速增长。这些发展反过来又改变了支持它的制度和文化。这项研究旨在记录和分析与暴露相关研究的关键大学和国际暴露分析学会(ISEA)年会上的这些发展。这项研究将有助于记录接触科学和环境健康科学的历史，突出该领域跨学科合作的出现和支撑。重点是了解特定的科学家群体--接触过的科学家--本身如何理解和阐明这些跨学科合作的必要性。在一般层面上，这项研究将创造关于跨学科合作产生和发展方式的新知识，突出技术发展如何与方法、制度和文化发展交织在一起。这项研究将在期刊上发表文章，出版一本书，并在历史和社会科学会议上发表演讲。这项研究还将在环境健康研究会议和讲习班上进行介绍，帮助与会者了解有效跨学科的文化和基础设施方面。开发用于本科课程的案例研究也将产生广泛的影响，这些研究侧重于科学和技术的社会、伦理和法律层面。

This study will document and analyze the emerging field of Human Exposure Science, conducting in-depth interviews and participant-observation to understand how transdisciplinary collaborations are being forged and sustained in the environmental health sciences. The aim of exposure science is to understand the complex mechanisms by which humans get exposed to disease-causing agents in their environments. The practice of exposure science demands transdisciplinary collaborations among a wide range of scientists and engineers, since it involves research problems beyond the narrow specializations of any one scientific discipline. New technologies, specifically those of personal monitoring, modeling, and biomarkers supported by different institutional mechanisms have catalyzed a rapid growth in this field in recent years. These developments in turn have transformed the very institutions and culture that have supported it. This study aims to document and analyze these developments at universities key for exposure related research and the annual meeting of the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA).Intellectual Merit. The study will contribute to the historical record of exposure science and the environmental health sciences, highlighting the emergence and sustenance of transdisciplinary collaborations in the field. The focus is on understanding how a particular group of scientists - exposure scientists - themselves understand and articulate the need for these transdisciplinary collaborations. At a general level, this study will create new knowledge about the ways transdisciplinary collaborations emerge and evolve, highlighting how technological development entwines with methodological, institutional and cultural developments.Broader Impacts. The study will result in journal articles, a book, and presentations at history and social science conferences. The study will also result in presentations at environmental health research conferences and workshops that will help participants understand the cultural and infrastructural aspects of effective transdisciplinarity. Broad impact will also result from the development of case studies for use in undergraduate courses focused on the social, ethical and legal dimensions of science and technology.