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Toxic safety : flame retardants, chemical controversies, and environmental health / Alissa Cordner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231541384
  • 9780231541381
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Toxic safety.DDC classification:
  • 363.2 23
LOC classification:
  • TD428.F57
Online resources:
Contents:
Uncertain science and the fight for environmental health -- Hot topics : flame retardants in the public sphere -- Defending risk and defining safety -- Strategic science translation -- Negotiating science, politicizing science -- Science for advocacy.
Summary: A revealing text for public-health advocates, '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 and even good intentions can have deleterious effects.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A revealing text for public-health advocates, '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 and even good intentions can have deleterious effects.

Uncertain science and the fight for environmental health -- Hot topics : flame retardants in the public sphere -- Defending risk and defining safety -- Strategic science translation -- Negotiating science, politicizing science -- Science for advocacy.

English.

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