Soraya (Hrsg.) Boudia

Powerless Science?

Science and Politics in a Toxic World

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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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Jas, Nathalie (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78238-237-9
EAN: 9781782382379
Produktnummer: 20451028
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 290 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 7'831 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 2

Über den Autor

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. She has co-edited a special issue of History and Technology, Risk and risk Society in Historical Perspective (2007), and Toxicants, Health and Regulations Since 1945 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013), both with Soraya Boudia.