Opis: Toxic Safety - Alissa Cordner

Initially marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Some argue that data show the chemicals are unsafe while others continue to support their use. The tactics of each side have far-reaching consequences for how we interpret new scientific discoveries. An experienced environmental sociologist, Alissa Cordner conducts more than a hundred interviews with activists, scientists, regulators, and industry professionals to isolate the social, scientific, economic, and political forces influencing environmental health policy today. Introducing "strategic science translation," she describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals and construct "conceptual risk formulas" to shape risk assessment and the interpretation of empirical evidence. A revelatory text for public-health advocates, Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all parties interested in health issues use science to support their claims, they do not compete on a level playing field and even good intentions can have deleterious effects. How could a class of chemicals as dangerous to health and limited in usefulness as flame retardants have become as widespread as they have? How could scientists, advocates, legislators, firefighters, and others mount an effective campaign to curb their use? Toxic Safety tells this story with great finesse, while setting the bar for research on chemical controversy. Cordner's notion of 'strategic science translation' and her elaboration of multiple approaches to risk will be standards for future environmental and public health scholars. -- Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement The flame retardant controversy serves as a fascinating case study of how scientific policies are made. Toxic Safety is a well-researched, well-organized, and well-written real-life example of how science contributes to policy. -- Julie Herbstman, Columbia UniversityAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety4. Strategic Science Translation5. Negotiating Science6. Science of AdvocacyConclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical JusticeAppendix. Playing the Field: Methodological ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex

Szczegóły: Toxic Safety - Alissa Cordner

Tytuł: Toxic Safety
Autor: Alissa Cordner
Wydawnictwo: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231171465
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 352
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.45 kg

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