LEADER 04825nam 2200937Ia 450 001 9910786185703321 005 20230803025047.0 010 $a0-520-95524-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520955240 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325444 035 $a(EBL)1112140 035 $a(OCoLC)824733662 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819762 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12355122 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819762 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10855443 035 $a(PQKB)10498429 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001601117 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1112140 035 $a(OCoLC)966879824 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52265 035 $a(DE-B1597)519692 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520955240 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1112140 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10645657 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL427240 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325444 100 $a20121023d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aExposed science$b[electronic resource] $egenes, the environment, and the politics of population health /$fSara Shostak 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-27517-9 311 0 $a0-520-27518-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. "Toxicology Is a Political Science" --$t2. The Consensus Critique --$t3. Susceptible Bodies --$t4. "Opening the Black Box of the Human Body" --$t5. Making a Molecular Regulatory Science --$t6. The Molecular is Political --$tConclusion --$tAfterword --$tAppendix A --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aWe rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental health sciences and examines its consequences for how we understand and seek to protect population health. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we know - and what we don't know - about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is profoundly shaped by environmental health scientists' efforts to address the structural vulnerabilities of their field. She then takes up the political effects of this research, both from the perspective of those who seek to establish genomic technologies as a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that that their efforts to redress the social, political, and economical inequalities that put people at risk of environmental exposure will be undermined by molecular explanations of environmental health and illness. Exposed Science thus offers critically important new ways of understanding and engaging with the emergence of gene-environment interaction as a focal concern of environmental health science, policy-making, and activism. 606 $aEnvironmental health$xPolitical aspects 606 $aHealth risk assessment 606 $aPollution$xEnvironmental aspects 610 $a20th century. 610 $aengaging. 610 $aenvironmental hazards. 610 $aenvironmental health sciences. 610 $aenvironmental health scientists. 610 $aenvironmental justice activists. 610 $aenvironmental regulation. 610 $aethnographic observation. 610 $aexperiments. 610 $agene environment interactions. 610 $agenomic technologies. 610 $ahealth policy. 610 $ahistory of medicine. 610 $ahuman condition. 610 $ain depth interviews. 610 $amedical. 610 $amedicine. 610 $apage turner. 610 $apolitical effects. 610 $apopulation health. 610 $apublic policy. 610 $ascience and technology. 610 $ascientists. 610 $astructural vulnerabilities. 615 0$aEnvironmental health$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aHealth risk assessment. 615 0$aPollution$xEnvironmental aspects. 676 $a613/.1 700 $aShostak$b Sara$01156531 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786185703321 996 $aExposed science$93831298 997 $aUNINA