Adams Glyphosate and the Swirl

An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2403-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

Vincanne Adams takes the complex chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and pervasive agricultural herbicide—to explore the formation of contested knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Adams, Vincanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1. From Blossoms 1
2. Building the Food Chemosphere 16
3. Ontological Multiplicity & Glyphosate’s Safety 37
4. Chemical Life, Clinical Encounters 51
5. The Scientific Consensus & the Counterfactual 73
6. Consensuses, Academic Capitalism & the Swirl 97
7. Glyphosate Becomes an Activist 114
8. Chemicals as Agents of Care 130
Notes 139
References 145
Index 167

Über Autor(innen)

Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco, author of Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina, and coeditor of Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge, both also published by Duke University Press.