Powerless Science

Author : Soraya Boudia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382372
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powerless Science? written by Soraya Boudia and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Soraya Boudia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782382362
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powerless Science? written by Soraya Boudia and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Soraya Boudia is Professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. Her scholarly work focuses on the transnational government of technological and health environmental risks. 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 Nathalie Jas. 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.

Author : Oliver Broudy
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198212850X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sensitives written by Oliver Broudy and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling exploration of the mysteries of environmental toxicity and the community of “sensitives”—people with powerful, puzzling symptoms resulting from exposure to chemicals, fragrances, and cell phone signals, that have no effect on “normals.” They call themselves “sensitives.” Over fifty million Americans endure a mysterious environmental illness that renders them allergic to chemicals. Innocuous staples from deodorant to garbage bags wreak havoc on sensitives. For them, the enemy is modernity itself. No one is born with EI. It often starts with a single toxic exposure. Then the symptoms hit: extreme fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches, inability to tolerate certain foods. With over 85,000 chemicals in the environment, danger lurks around every corner. Largely ignored by the medical establishment and dismissed by family and friends, sensitives often resort to odd ersatz remedies, like lining their walls with aluminum foil or hanging mail on a clothesline for days so it can “off-gas” before they open it. Broudy encounters Brian Welsh, a prominent figure in the EI community, and quickly becomes fascinated by his plight. When Brian goes missing, Broudy travels with James, an eager, trusting sensitive to find Brian, investigate this disease, and delve into the intricate, ardent subculture that surrounds it. Their destination: Snowflake, the capital of the EI world. Located in eastern Arizona, it is a haven where sensitives can live openly without fear of toxins or the judgment of insensitive “normals.” While Broudy’s book is wry, pacey, and down-to-earth, it also dives deeply into compelling corners of medical and American history. He finds telling parallels between sensitives and their cultural forebears, from the Puritans to those refugees and dreamers who settled the West. Ousted from mainstream society, these latter-day exiles nonetheless shed bright light on the anxious, noxious world we all inhabit now.

Author : Vincanne Adams
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024038
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glyphosate and the Swirl written by Vincanne Adams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Glyphosate and the Swirl Vincanne Adams explores the chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and a pervasive agricultural herbicide—as a predicament of contested science and chemically saturated life. Adams traces the history of glyphosate’s invention and its multiple uses as activists, regulators, scientists, clinicians, consumers, and sick people try to determine its safety and harm. Scientific and political debates over glyphosate’s toxicity are agitated into a swirl—a condition in which certainty is continually contested, divided, and multiplied. This movement replicates the chemical’s movement in soils, foods, bodies, archives, labs, and legislative bodies, settling in some places here and in other places there, its potencies changing and altering what it touches with different scales and kinds of impact. The swirl is both an artifact of academic capitalism, activist tactics, and contested scientific facts and a way to capture the complexity of contemporary life with chemicals.

Author : Donald M. Hassler
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037368
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction written by Donald M. Hassler and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the vast expanse of politically-charged science fiction, this book posits that the defining dilemma for these tales rests in whether identity and meaning germinate from progressive linear changes or progress, or from a continuous return to primitive realities of war, death and the competition for survival.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book The Christian Science Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Augusta Emma Stetson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1290 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences, Sermons and Correspondence Proving Adherence to the Principle of Christian Science as Taught by Mary Baker Eddy written by Augusta Emma Stetson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book Dublin journal of medical science written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book The Dublin Journal of Medical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Salina
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475822367
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Powerless to Powerful written by Charles Salina and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a humanistic approach to implementing programs and systems that bring academic press, social support, and relational trust together in unique ways. Based on the understanding that old beliefs are changed by supporting new behaviors, the approach includes acquiring and using data in innovative and intentional ways. Properly conducted, the approach results in high morale, a sense of inclusiveness and success, increased efficacy, and improved metrics in all areas of education. The book includes the research and theory behind the approach, action steps for leaders, and lessons learned in the process—useful elements of success for any school.