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Chemical consequences : environmental mutagens, scientist activism, and the rise of genetic toxicology /
Annotation Here is the first historical and sociological account of the formation of an interdisciplinary science known as genetic toxicology, and of the scientists' social movement that created it. After research geneticists discovered that synthetic chemical were capable of changing the genet...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2004.
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Table des matières:
- 1. Situating genetic toxicology
- 2. Working on mutations
- 3. Making room for environmental mutagens
- 4. A wave of scientist collective action
- 5. Framing scientist activism
- 6. Organizing a scientists' movement
- 7. Conclusion : environmental knowledge politics in practice
- App. A. Scientists interviewed
- App. B. Timeline of institutionalizing events in environmental mutagenesis/genetic toxicology, 1964-1976.