Tousignant Noemi Tousignant

Edges of Exposure (eBook, PDF)

Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal

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Produktbeschreibung

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, Noemi 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371724
• Artikelnr.: 54676116

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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