Powerless science? : science and politics in a toxic world /: science and politics in a toxic world. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas.
• Editors: Boudia, Soraya; Jas, Nathalie
• Contents: Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World; Part I -- Knowledge, Expertise, and the Transformations in Regulatory Systems; Chapter 1 -- Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors; Chapter 2 -- The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test; Chapter 3 -- DES, Cancer, and Endocrine Disruptors: Ways of Regulating, Chemical Risks, and Public Expertise in the United States; Chapter 4 -- Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty: Environmental Risk Assessment in a Historical Perspective. Part II -- Activism and Nonactivism: Alternative Uses of KnowledgeChapter 5 -- Work, Bodies, Militancy: The ""Class Ecology"" Debate in 1970s Italy; Chapter 6 -- What Kind of Knowledge is Needed about Toxicant-Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin Case; Chapter 7 -- From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science, and the Law in the United States and Italy; Chapter 8 -- Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan; Part III -- Putting Knowledge, Ignorance, and Regulation into Perspective. Chapter 9 -- Reckless Laws, Contaminated People: Science Reveals Legal Shortcomings in Public Health ProtectionsChapter 10 -- Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment; Chapter 11 -- Low-Dose Toxicology: Narratives from the Science-Transcience Interface; Chapter 12 -- Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Toward a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty-First Century; Contributors; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)
• Subjects: 338.926; Science and state; Science -- Political aspects; Science -- Moral and ethical aspects; Science -- Moral and ethical aspects; Science -- Political aspects; Science and state; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; Science and state; Science -- Moral and ethical aspects; Science -- Political aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782382379; 1782382372; 1306316081; 9781306316088
• Related ISBNs: 9781782382362; 1782382364
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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