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Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health by Sara Shostak (Hardback, 2013)
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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 ethgraphic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we kw - and what we don't kw - about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is profoundly shaped by environmental health scientists' 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 gemic techlogies as a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that their efforts to redress the social, political, and ecomical 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520275179
ISBN-139780520275171
eBay Product ID (ePID)138774749
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameExposed Science : Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
SubjectMedicine: General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Science, Medical
AuthorSara Shostak
FormatCloth over Boards, Hardback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Height229mm
Width152mm
Weight467g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication15/03/2013
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Place of PublicationBerkerley
Spine22mm
GenreMedicine: General
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author BiographySara Shostak Is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University.
Content Note3 Line Illustrations, 1 Map
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