LEADER 04571nam 2200649 450 001 9910790994903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78533-198-1 010 $a1-78238-237-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781782382379 035 $a(CKB)2550000001182833 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1375262 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1375262 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10826397 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562859 035 $a(OCoLC)868281877 035 $a(DE-B1597)637381 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781782382379 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001182833 100 $a20140129h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aPowerless science? $escience and politics in a toxic world /$fedited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas 210 1$aNew York, [New York] ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (290 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 1 $aThe Environment in History: International Perspectives 311 $a1-78238-236-4 311 $a1-306-31608-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aIntroduction. 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 Gaudillia?ere -- Managing scientific and political uncertainty: environmental risk assessment in a historical perspective / Soraya Boudia. 327 $aPart 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. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aIn spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives. 410 0$aEnvironment in history. 606 $aScience and state 606 $aScience$xPolitical aspects 606 $aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects 615 0$aScience and state. 615 0$aScience$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aScience$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a338.9/26 686 $aAK 24400$2rvk 701 $aBoudia$b Soraya$01145381 701 $aJas$b Nathalie$01145382 712 02$aRachel Carson Center Environment and Society. 712 02$aEuropean Society for Environmental History. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790994903321 996 $aPowerless science$93716128 997 $aUNINA