Powerless science? [electronic resource] : science and politics in a toxic world / edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas.
Boudia, Soraya.; Jas, Nathalie.; Rachel Carson Center Environment and Society.; European Society for Environmental History.
2014
Q125 .P694 2014eb
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Title Powerless science? [electronic resource] : science and politics in a toxic world / edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas.
ISBN 9781782382379 electronic book
9781782382362
Published New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations, photographs.
Call Number Q125 .P694 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9/26
Summary In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Boudia, Soraya.
Jas, Nathalie.
Added Corporate Author Rachel Carson Center Environment and Society.
European Society for Environmental History.
Series Environment in history ; v. 2.
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Introduction. The greatness and misery of science in a toxic world / Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
Part I. Knowledge, expertise, and the transformations in regulatory systems
Precaution and the history of endocrine disruptors / Nancy Langston
The political life of mutagens: a history of the Ames test / Angela N. H. Creager
DES, cancer, and endocrine disruptors: ways of regulating, chemical risks, and public expertise in the United States / Jean-Paul Gaudilliáere
Managing scientific and political uncertainty: environmental risk assessment in a historical perspective / Soraya Boudia.

Part II. Activism and nonactivism: alternative uses of knowledge
Work, bodies, militancy: the "class ecology" debate in 1970s Italy / Stefania Barca
What kind of knowledge is needed about toxicant-related health issues? Some lessons drawn from the Seveso dioxin case / Laura Centemeri
From suspicious illness to policy change in petrochemical regions: popular epidemiology, science, and the law in the United States and Italy / Barbara L. Allen
Guinea pigs go to court: epidemiology and class actions in Taiwan / Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng.

Part III. Putting knowledge, ignorance, and regulation into perspective
Reckless laws, contaminated people: science reveals legal shortcomings in public health protections / Carl F. Cranor
Untangling ignorance in environmental risk assessment / Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards
Low-dose toxicology: narratives from science-transcience interface / Sheldon Krimsky
Unruly technologies and fractured oversight: toward a model for chemical control for the twenty-first century / Jody A. Roberts.

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