In October 2008, the journal Environmental History released a special issue titled "toxic bodies/toxic environments: an interdisciplinary forum" to bring together environmental historians, science studies scholars, and historians of science to reflect on "cultural models and historical assumptions that guide contemporary regulatory policy". The editors highlighr four themes: uncertainty of (toxic) knowledge, place of knowledge production, politics of environments/bodies, and historical roots of toxicological frameworks. The case studies are drawn mostly from North America.
Jody A. Roberts, Scott Frickel, Nancy Langston, Michael Egan, Linda Nash, Barbara Allen, Sarah A. Vogel, Davis Frederick Rowe, Arthur Daemmrich and Michelle Murphy, "toxic bodies/toxic environments (2008)", contributed by Prerna Srigyan, Center for Ethnography, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 10 February 2020, accessed 26 April 2024. http://centerforethnography.org/content/toxic-bodiestoxic-environments-2008
Critical Commentary
In October 2008, the journal Environmental History released a special issue titled "toxic bodies/toxic environments: an interdisciplinary forum" to bring together environmental historians, science studies scholars, and historians of science to reflect on "cultural models and historical assumptions that guide contemporary regulatory policy". The editors highlighr four themes: uncertainty of (toxic) knowledge, place of knowledge production, politics of environments/bodies, and historical roots of toxicological frameworks. The case studies are drawn mostly from North America.