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  • Preface ; Acknowledgments ; List of Figures ; Chapter 1. Science, Law, and American Politics ; A Cultural Trilemma ; The Politics of Science in a Democracy ; The Uncertainties of Knowledge ; Dispute Resolution in a Jurocracy ; Courts and Science-Policy Disputes ; Chapter 2. Courts and Toxic Torts ; The Regulatory Role of Courts ; A Revolution in Private Law Litigation ; An Asbestos Nightmare ; The Impact of Private Law Litigation ; Judicial Regulation in an Imperfect World ; Chapter 3. Beleaguered and Embattled Judges? ; The Trials of Trial Courts
  • Adjudicating Science-Policy Disputes The Reserve Mining Controversy ; Judging Judges ; Chapter 4. The Allure of a Judicial/Administrative Partnership ; Patterns of Administrative Law and Politics ; Judicializing the Regulatory Process ; Science-Policy Disputes and Regulatory Complexity ; Cures Worse Than Diseases, Diseases Worse Than Cures: Tris ; The Costs of Judicializing Regulatory Politics ; Science-Policy Disputes and the Judicial/Administrative Partnership ; Chapter 5. An Elusive Senior Partner ; More Process or More Reason? ; When Reasons Are Not Enough: Regulating Benzene
  • Toward Clarity: Regulating Cotton Dust Judicial Review and Deregulation ; Conclusion ; Epilogue: Reconsidering Courts and Science-Policy Litigation ; Appendix A. Chronology of Major Federal Laws Relating to Environmental Quality and Health ; Appendix B. Bases for Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation ; Appendix C. Substances Regulated as Carcinogens Under Federal Legislation ; Selected Bibliography ; List of Cases ; General Index