Edges of Exposure Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal - Experimental Futures
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In the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant traces the work of toxicologists in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Situating recent toxic scandals within histories of science and regulation in postcolonial Africa, Tousignant shows how decolonization and structural adjustment have impacted toxicity and toxicology research. Ultimately, as Tousignant reveals, scientists' capacity to conduct research-as determined by material working conditions, levels of public investment, and their creative but not always successful efforts to make visible the harm of toxic poisons-affects their ability to keep equipment, labs, projects, and careers going.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780822371243 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 11 May 2018 |
DEWEY: | 615.90209663 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 224 |
Weight: | 342g |
Height: | 191mm |
Width: | 230mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |