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

制定跨学科战略：从暴露评估到暴露分析（在美国）。

• 批准号: 0724684
• 负责人: Kim Fortun
• 金额: $ 16.54万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0724684&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Strategizing; Transdisciplinarity; Exposure; Assessment; Analysis

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.

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，以了解如何在环境健康科学中建立和维持跨学科的合作。暴露科学的目的是了解人类在其环境中暴露于引起疾病的药物的复杂机制。暴露科学的实践要求在广泛的科学家和工程师之间进行跨学科的合作，因为它涉及任何一项科学学科的狭窄专业知识之外的研究问题。新技术，特别是由不同机构机制支持的个人监测，建模和生物标志物的技术，近年来该领域的迅速增长。这些发展反过来改变了支持它的机构和文化。这项研究旨在记录和分析大学与暴露相关研究的关键和国际暴露学会分析（ISEA）年度会议的发展。这项研究将有助于曝光科学和环境健康科学的历史记录，强调该领域的跨学科合作的出现和维持。重点是理解特定的科学家群体如何理解并表达对这些跨学科合作的需求。从一般层面上，这项研究将创造有关跨学科合作的出现和发展方式的新知识，强调了技术发展如何与方法论，制度和文化发展融为一体。这项研究将导致期刊文章，一本书以及历史和社会科学会议的演讲。该研究还将在环境健康研究会议和研讨会上进行演讲，以帮助参与者了解有效的跨学科性的文化和基础设施方面。案例研究的发展也将造成广泛的影响，该案例研究专注于科学和技术的社会，道德和法律维度。