Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard across a Globalizing World

Contributors

Contributors Barbara L. Allen is the director of the graduate program in science, technology and society (sts) at virginia tech’s Washington, d.C., campus. she is the author of Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor Disputes (2003) and coeditor of several books, including Dynamics of Disaster: Lessons on Risk, Response and Recovery (2011). Stefania Barca is a senior researcher at the Centre for social studies of the university of Coimbra, portugal. her education and research span italy, the united states, and portugal, and she has written three books, including Enclosing Water: Nature and Political Economy in a Mediterranean Valley, 1796–1916 (2010). Paul D. Blanc is a professor of medicine and holds the endowed Chair in Occupational and environmental medicine at the university of California, san Francisco. among his many publications is the general-interest book How Everyday Products Make People Sick (2009). Susanna Rankin Bohme is a deputy editor of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. her book on the history of the pesticide dBCp is forthcoming from the university of California press. Tim Carter, a specialist in occupational and transport medicine, served as Britain’s medical director of the health and safety executive, and he is currently a visiting professor at the norwegian Centre for maritime medicine in 208 / ConTrIBuTors Bergen. his ph.d. studies at the university of Birmingham developed his interest in anthrax and the regulation of its occupational, public, and veterinary health risks. Barry Castleman has been deeply involved in the struggle over asbestos in the united states and worldwide for over thirty years as a scientist working with environmental nongovernmental organizations. his Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects (2005) is now in its fifth edition, and others of his publications have pioneered in the study of the “export of hazards” and the “double standards” of multinational corporations. Emmanuel Henry is an associate professor of political science at the institute of political studies of strasbourg, France, and a researcher at the Center for european political sociology (Gspe), also in strasbourg. he is the author of, among other works, Amiante: Un scandale improbable. Sociologie d’un problème public, or Asbestos: An Improbable Scandal. Sociology of a Public Problem (2007). Amarjit kaur is a professor in the school of Business economics and public policy at new england university, armidale, australia. she has authored many books and articles, among them: Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840: Globalisation, the International Division of Labour and Labour Transformations (2004). Joseph Melling is the director of the Centre for medical history at the university of exeter. he is the author (with Bill Forsythe) of The Politics of Madness (2006) and (with alan Booth) of Making the Modern Workplace (2008). Alfredo Menéndez-Navarro is an associate professor in the history of science department at the university of Granada, spain. he has published A Sunless World: The Health of the Workers of Almaden Mercury Mines, 1750–1900 (1996, in spanish), a book-length edition of an eighteenth-century manuscript, Morbid Catastrophe (1998, in spanish), and many related articles. Daniel E. Renfrew is an assistant professor of anthropology in the division of sociology and anthropology at West virginia university. in addition to his many articles, he is drawing from his doctoral dissertation and ongoing ethnographic research to complete a book on the broad-based societal responses to the discovery of a lead poisoning epidemic in montevideo, uruguay. Myrna Santiago is a professor of history at saint mary’s College in moraga, California, where she teaches latin american and world history. her first book was The Ecology of Oil: Environment, Labor, and the Mexican Revolution, 1900–1930 (2007). Christopher Sellers is an associate professor of history at stony Brook university and author of Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science (1997). he is also coeditor or author of various other books and articles. Geoffrey Tweedale is a professor of business history at manchester metropolitan university Business school in manchester, united Kingdom. he is the author of Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard (2000) ConTrIBuTors / 209 and (with Jock mcCulloch) Defending the Indefensible (2008) on the global asbestos disaster. Anna Zalik is an assistant professor on the faculty of environmental studies at york university, in toronto, Canada. trained as a sociologist, she is the author of many articles and a forthcoming book on how corporate aid reconstitutes...