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Toxic Safety - Alissa Cordner

Toxic Safety

Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-17146-5 (ISBN)
CHF 95,95 inkl. MwSt
Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals. 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.
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.

Alissa Cordner is assistant professor of sociology at Whitman College and coauthor (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Peter Klein, and Stephanie Savell) of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014).

Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health 2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere 3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety 4. Strategic Science Translation 5. Negotiating Science 6. Science of Advocacy Conclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical Justice Appendix. Playing the Field: Methodological Reflections Notes References Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Chemie
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Technik Bauwesen
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10 0-231-17146-3 / 0231171463
ISBN-13 978-0-231-17146-5 / 9780231171465
Zustand Neuware
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