Edges of Exposure

Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal

Noémi Tousignant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7113-7 (ISBN)

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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.

NoÉmi Tousignant is Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Poisons and Unprotection in Africa 1
1. After Interruption: Recovering Movement in the Polyrhythmic Laboratory 25
2. Advancement: Futures of Toxicology during "la CoopÉration" 59
3. Routine Rhythms and the Regulatory Imagination 85
4. Prolonging Project Locustox, Instrastructuring Sahelian Ecotoxicology 105
5. Waiting/Not Waiting for Poison Control 125
Epilogue. Partial Privileges 143
Notes 151
Bibliography 179
Index 205

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Experimental Futures
Zusatzinfo	18 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-7113-8 / 0822371138
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7113-7 / 9780822371137
Zustand	Neuware