Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: The Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World 1
6. PART I Knowledge, Expertise, and the Transformations in Regulatory Systems
7. CHAPTER 1 Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors 29
8. CHAPTER 2 The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test 46
9. CHAPTER 3 DES, Cancer, and Endocrine Disruptors: Ways of Regulating, Chemical Risks, and Public Expertise in the United States 65
10. CHAPTER 4 Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty: Environmental Risk Assessment in a Historical Perspective 95
11. PART II Activism and Nonactivism: Alternative Uses of Knowledge
12. CHAPTER 5 Work, Bodies, Militancy: The “Class Ecology” Debate in 1970s Italy 115
13. CHAPTER 6 What Kind of Knowledge is Needed about Toxicant-Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin Case 134
14. CHAPTER 7 From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science, and the Law in the United States and Italy 152
15. CHAPTER 8 Guinea Pigs Go to Court: Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan 170
16. PART III Putting Knowledge, Ignorance, and Regulation into Perspective
17. CHAPTER 9 Reckless Laws, Contaminated People: Science Reveals Legal Shortcomings in Public Health Protections 195
18. CHAPTER 10 Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment 215
19. CHAPTER 11 Low-Dose Toxicology: Narratives from the Science-Transcience Interface 234
20. CHAPTER 12 Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Toward a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty-First Century 254
21. Contributors 269
22. Index 274