Powerless Science Science and Politics in a Toxic World
Auteurs : BOUDIA Soraya, JAS Nathalie
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Greatness and Misery of Science in a
Toxic World
Part I : Knowledge, Expertise and the Transformations in Régulatory 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 Perturbation: Ways
of Regulating, Chemical Risks and Public Expertise in the United States
Chapter 4. Managing Scientific and Political
Uncertainty. Environmental Risk Assessment in an Historical Perspective
Part II : Activism and non-activism: alternative uses of knowledge
Chapter 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
Chapter 7. From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in
Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science and the Law in the
U.S. 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 Protections
Chapter 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: Towards a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty First
Century
List of Contributors
Index
Nathalie Jas is a Senior Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). A historian and a STS scholar, her scholarly work analyses the intensification of agriculture and its social, environmental, and health effects.
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