Title:
Toxic safety : flame retardants, chemical controversies, and environmental health / Alissa Cordner.
Author:
Cordner, Alissa.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
©2016
Call Number:
TD428.F57 C67 2016
Abstract:
Explores the "social, scientific, economic, and political forces influencing environmental health policy today. ... [This book] 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." --book jacket.
ISBN:
9780231171465
Physical Description:
xii, 332 pages : 22 cm.
Contents:
Uncertain science and the fight for environmental health -- Hot topics : flame retardants in the public sphere -- Defending risk and defining safety -- Strategic science translation -- Negotiating science, politicizing science -- Science for advocacy.
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