Toxic Safety - Flame Retardants, Chemical Controversies, and Environmental Health

Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals. Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all parties interested in health issues use science to support their claims, they do not compete on a level playing field.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health
2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere
3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety
4. Strategic Science Translation
5. Negotiating Science
6. Science of Advocacy
Conclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical Justice
Appendix. Playing the Field: Methodological Reflections
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Alissa Cordner is assistant professor of sociology at Whitman College and coauthor (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Peter Klein, and Stephanie Savell) of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014).

Summary

Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evidence to support nonscientific goals. Toxic Safety demonstrates that while all parties interested in health issues use science to support their claims, they do not compete on a level playing field.

Product details

• Authors: Alissa Cordner, Cordner Alissa
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780231171472
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17147-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, MEDICAL / Public Health, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Pollution Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, LAW / Environmental, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Medical screening, Illness & addiction: social aspects, chemistry, environmental science, engineering & technology, Pollution control, Environmental policy & protocols, Environment law, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols, Personal safety