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647044
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Powerless science? : : science and politics in a toxic world /\ edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
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| Series Statement
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The environment in history: international perspectives ;; volume 2
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viii, 280 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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9781782382362 (hardback : alk. paper)
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: 1782382364 (hardback : alk. paper)
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9781782382379 (institutional ebook)
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1782382372 (institutional ebook)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction. 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 Gaudilliáere -- Managing scientific and political uncertainty: environmental risk assessment in a historical perspective / Soraya Boudia
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Part 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
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Part 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
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Science and state
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Science-- Political aspects
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Science-- Moral and ethical aspects
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Science
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Hazardous Substances
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Politics
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Social Sciences
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| Dewey Classification
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338.9/26
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Q125.P923 2014
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2015 C-496
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Q 125
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Boudia, Soraya
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Jas, Nathalie
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