| Description |
viii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The environment in history: international perspectives ; volume 2
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Environment in history ;
v. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
Science and state.
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Science -- Political aspects.
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| Added Author |
Boudia, Soraya. Editor.
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Jas, Nathalie. Editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782382362 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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1782382364 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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