Accidents and the State: Understanding Risks in the 20th Century (Histoire)

About the Author

Peter Itzen is a historian who teaches at the University of Freiburg. His main research topics are the history of religion in the twentieth century, modern British history, and the social history of risks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Birgit Metzger has a degree in cultural studies and completed her PhD with a thesis on forest die-back as a political issue in West Germany in the 1980s. She worked as a lecturer in contemporary European history at the Saarland University and is currently a postdoc at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. Anne Rasmussen is a professor of the history of science at the University of Strasbourg and a member of the research unit SAGE (Societies, Actors, and Government in Europe) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is a fellow in the joint research program of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study. Her research interests center on the social and cultural history of biomedical sciences and health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and her current project explores the links between World War I, medicine, and public health.