Vincanne Adams

Glyphosate and the Swirl

An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9781478016755
• ISBN-10: 1478016752
• Artikelnr.: 64363048

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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