Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health

by Sara Naomi Shostak

Book Overview

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science , Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520275187
• ISBN13: 9780520275188
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"