Scott Frickel

Angela N. H. Creager

Soraya Boudia

Nathalie Jas

Carsten Reinhardt

Emmanuel Henry

Jody A. Roberts

Residues offers readers a new approach for conceptualizing the environmental impacts of chemicals production, consumption, disposal, and regulation. With detailed stories that span the globe, we introduce "residual materialism" as a way to track the, often invisible, impacts of chemicals through time and space and for explaining their world-making powers.

Thinking Through Chemical Environments

Residues

The number of substances potentially dangerous to our health and environment is constantly increasing. The papers in this volume examine the concurrent rise of pollutants and the regulations designed to police their use.

Toxicants, Health and Regulation since 1945

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.

Science and Politics in a Toxic World

Powerless Science?

Soraya Boudia

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