Lavoisier S.A.S.
14 rue de Provigny
94236 Cachan cedex
FRANCE

Heures d'ouverture 08h30-12h30/13h30-17h30
Tél.: +33 (0)1 47 40 67 00
Fax: +33 (0)1 47 40 67 02


Url canonique : www.lavoisier.fr/livre/sciences-du-risque/powerless-science/boudia/descriptif_3364418
Url courte ou permalien : www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?ouvrage=3364418

Powerless Science Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Langue : Anglais

Auteurs :

Couverture de l’ouvrage Powerless Science
In 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.

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

Soraya Boudia is Professor of Sociology at Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne Paris Cité). Her scholarly work focuses on the transnational government of technological and health environmental risks.

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.

Date de parution :

Ouvrage de 280 p.

Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).

Prix indicatif 40,97 €

Ajouter au panier

Thème de Powerless Science  :