Nathalie Jas is a Senior Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). A historian and a STS scholar, her scholarly work analyses the intensification of agriculture and its social, environmental, and health effects. She has co-edited a special issue of History and Technology, "Risk and risk Society in Historical Perspective" (2007), and Toxicants, Health and Regulations Since 1945 (Pickering & Chatto, 2013), both with Soraya Boudia.

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Introduction: Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World
Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas

PART I : KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS IN REGULATORY SYSTEMS

Chapter 1. Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors
Nancy Langston

Chapter 2. The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test
Angela N. H. Creager

Chapter 3. DES, Cancer and Endocrine Perturbation: Ways of Regulating, Chemical Risks and Public Expertise in the United States
Jean-Paul Gaudillière

Chapter 4. Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty. Environmental Risk Assessment in an Historical Perspective
Soraya Boudia

PART II : ACTIVISM AND NON-ACTIVISM: ALTERNATIVE USES OF KNOWLEDGE

Chapter 5. Work, Bodies, Militancy: the "Class Ecology" Debate in 1970s Italy
Stefania Barca

Chapter 6. What Kind of Knowledge is Needed about Toxicant- Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin
Laura Centemeri

Chapter 7. From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science and the Law in the U.S. and Italy
Barbara Allen

Chapter 8. Guinea Pigs go to Court. Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan
Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng

PART III: PUTTING KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, AND REGULATIONN INTO PERSPECTIVE

Chapter 9. Reckless Laws, Contaminated People: Science Reveals Legal Shortcomings in Public Health Protections
Carl Cranor

Chapter 10. Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment
Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards

Chapter 11. Low Dose Toxicology: Narratives from the Science-Transcience Interface
Sheldon Krimsky

Chapter 12. Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Towards a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty First Century
Jody A. Roberts

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