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Exposed Science - Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health (Hardcover)
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Exposed Science - Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health (Hardcover)
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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 OCo and what we donOCOt know OCo
about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is
profoundly shaped by environmental health scientistsOCO efforts to
address the structural vulnerabilities of their field. She then
takes up the political effects of this research, both from the
perspective of those who seek to establish genomic technologies as
a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective
of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that that
their efforts to redress the social, political, and economical
inequalities that put people at risk of environmental exposure will
be undermined by molecular explanations of environmental health and
illness. "Exposed Science" thus offers critically important new
ways of understanding and engaging with the emergence of
gene-environment interaction as a focal concern of environmental
health science, policy-making, and activism.
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