Powerless science?
Subtitle: science and politics in a toxic world
By: edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
Series: The environment in history: international perspectives -- volume 2
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781782382362; 9781782382379
Subjects: Science and state; Science; Political aspects; Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The greatness and misery of science in a toxic world / Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas; title: Part I. Knowledge, expertise, and the transformations in regulatory systems; title: Precaution and the history of endocrine disruptors / Nancy Langston; title: The political life of mutagens: a history of the Ames test / Angela N. H. Creager; title: DES, cancer, and endocrine disruptors: ways of regulating, chemical risks, and public expertise in the United States / Jean-Paul Gaudilliáere; title: Managing scientific and political uncertainty: environmental risk assessment in a historical perspective / Soraya Boudia.; title: Part II. Activism and nonactivism: alternative uses of knowledge; title: Work, bodies, militancy: the "class ecology" debate in 1970s Italy / Stefania Barca; title: What kind of knowledge is needed about toxicant-related health issues? Some lessons drawn from the Seveso dioxin case / Laura Centemeri; title: From suspicious illness to policy change in petrochemical regions: popular epidemiology, science, and the law in the United States and Italy / Barbara L. Allen; title: Guinea pigs go to court: epidemiology and class actions in Taiwan / Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng.; title: Part III. Putting knowledge, ignorance, and regulation into perspective; title: Reckless laws, contaminated people: science reveals legal shortcomings in public health protections / Carl F. Cranor; title: Untangling ignorance in environmental risk assessment / Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards; title: Low-dose toxicology: narratives from science-transcience interface / Sheldon Krimsky; title: Unruly technologies and fractured oversight: toward a model for chemical control for the twenty-first century / Jody A. Roberts.