Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World (Environment in History: International Perspectives, Band 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785331981 ISBN 13: 9781785331985

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785331981
• ISBN 13: 9781785331985
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
• Herausgeber: Boudia Soraya, Jas Nathalie
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland