Exposed science : genes, the environment, and the politics of population health /
Sara Shostak.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 297 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Toxicology is a Political Science -- The Consensus Critique -- Susceptible Bodies -- Opening the Black Box of the Human Body -- Making a Molecular Regulatory Science -- The Molecular is Political -- Conclusion.
"We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental health sciences and examines its consequences for how we understand and seek to protect population health. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we know --
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Environmental health--Political aspects. Pollution. Health risk assessment. Environmental health. Medical policy. Environmental Health Environmental Pollution--adverse effects Environmental Pollution--legislation & jurisprudence Gene-Environment Interaction Health Policy Health Status