Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History”

Kasson, John F.

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“….hospital'. 60 Accessing expressions of individuals' bodily experience and attempting to understand how people actually felt about their bodies is a key aspect of exploring embodied histories. 61 The crew agreements and logbooks infrequently provide details concerning I hereby reduce the wages of S. Atkinson to £2.10 per month for inability + unwillingness to perform his duties, also for being impudent to the Mate + Master on several occasions, particularly the night of the 14 th July 1896, when it being his watch on deck the Mate could not find him to haul braces, when found was in the forecastle, from 4AM to 8AM it being his watch on deck he remained in his bed.…”

Section: Bodies In Historymentioning

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For those in peril on and off the sea: Merchant marine bodies in nineteenth-century St. John’s, Newfoundland

Mant

2020

International Journal of Maritime History

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Nineteenth-century admission records to the St. John’s General Hospital have recently been made available for analysis. Records are extant from 17 May 1886 to 30 December 1899, and of the 5,995 admissions during this period, it was possible to identify 294 unique male merchant seafarers. Individuals were most frequently admitted due to traumatic conditions, respiratory diseases, and sexually transmitted infections, results which resonate with previous historical studies of seafaring health. Cross-referencing individual seafarer’s hospital admissions with crew list agreements from the Registrar General for Shipping and Seamen allowed for an examination of time spent in port before hospital admission, which provides a unique contribution to the historical literature on the health of the maritime workforce. This research sheds light upon the healthcare experience of merchant seafarers in the key port city of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, emphasizing the value of hospital records in broader studies of occupational risks and hygiene.

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Section: Bodies In Historymentioning

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For those in peril on and off the sea: Merchant marine bodies in nineteenth-century St. John’s, Newfoundland

Mant

2020

International Journal of Maritime History

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Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history: charting the circulation of workplace dangers, debates and expertise

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Melling

2012

Br J Hist Sci

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AbstractWe argue that industrial hazards have remained an integral feature of the international and ‘global’ economy since the early modern period, and invite historians of science into the study of their history. The growth and dissemination of knowledge about these hazards, as well as the production and trade that generate them, continue to generate deep inequalities in just who is exposed to them, as illustrated by the shifting impact of the asbestos-related disease plague in the past half-century. Exposure levels in poorer countries have risen as those in affluent societies have fallen, the latter due as much to popular protest and media exposure as to scientific expertise. We suggest that the best way to understand the formation of knowledge about these hazards is not to return to the epistemological battlegrounds of the ‘science wars’ of the 1990s but to seek more interdisciplinary integration of the multifaceted ways that material bodies, environments and interests contribute to an understanding of such hazards and injuries. We propose the framework of ‘industrial-hazard regimes’ as an avenue into the ways in which knowledge about risks and dangers at work are created, translated and contested in different countries and times. While urging a return, in some respects, to the early models of ‘progressive enlightenment’ devised by radical commentators and pioneering historians of the industrial hazard in the early twentieth century, we would revise these early approaches, and also offer some sceptical commentary on the difficulties raised, more recently, by narratives of ‘heroic populism’ or ‘anti-science epidemiology’. The critical standpoints for which we argue recognize the diverse social and political identities and loyalties not only of past contributors to the controversies on industrial hazard, but also of historians of science and medicine themselves.

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Follow the Bodies: Commentary on “ `The Body' as a Useful Category for Working-Class History”

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For those in peril on and off the sea: Merchant marine bodies in nineteenth-century St. John’s, Newfoundland

For those in peril on and off the sea: Merchant marine bodies in nineteenth-century St. John’s, Newfoundland

Towards a transnational industrial-hazard history: charting the circulation of workplace dangers, debates and expertise

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