Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society

FAIN: RZ-292795-23

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Graham Mooney (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

Planning and holding a conference that explores how individuals and communities live with, and make meaning out of, injuries across time, space, and social contexts. (12 months)

The proposed NEH Collaborative Research—Convening grant will organize and administer an international conference titled “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society” to build the emerging field of Injury Studies. This conference draws on the efforts of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy (CIRP), the spring 2022 “Governing Safety” workshop, and the newly-formed Injury Studies Research Group (ISRG) to incorporate the humanities into critical conversations about injuries across the social sciences and public health. The event brings together the histories of medicine, technology, and visual culture; literary studies; trauma studies; disability studies; anthropology; law; ethics; sociology; geography; engineering; health policy; and epidemiology to map current research on injuries and to chart directions for its potential futures.

Associated Products

For the Medical Record: On Rethinking Injuries (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: For the Medical Record: On Rethinking Injuries
Producer: Dr Christy Slobogin
Abstract: Join us in our conversation with Wendy Shields, Senior Scientist at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Alexander Parry, PhD candidate in History of Medicine. These two are part of a wider research network and team spearheading the field of injury studies, in part represented by a hybrid, internationally focused conference in March 2024 called “Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society.” Join us in our discussions about why studying injuries is important, and how scholars from many diverse fields can contribute to injury studies.
Date: 11/01/2023
Primary URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rmVDdqfAu7DiEwPgfCTpF?si=57776171cc3947f8
Primary URL Description: Podcast episode on Spotify
Secondary URL: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alexander-parry-and-wendy-shields-on-rethinking-injuries/id1649371829?i=1000637052683
Secondary URL Description: Podcast episode on Apple Podcasts
Format: Other

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