Powerless science? : science and politics in a toxic world / edited by Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas.

Introduction. The greatness and misery of science in a toxic world / Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas
Part I. Knowledge, expertise, and the transformations in regulatory systems
Precaution and the history of endocrine disruptors / Nancy Langston
The political life of mutagens: a history of the Ames test / Angela N. H. Creager
DES, cancer, and endocrine disruptors: ways of regulating, chemical risks, and public expertise in the United States / Jean-Paul Gaudilliáere
Managing scientific and political uncertainty: environmental risk assessment in a historical perspective / Soraya Boudia.

Part II. Activism and nonactivism: alternative uses of knowledge
Work, bodies, militancy: the "class ecology" debate in 1970s Italy / Stefania Barca
What kind of knowledge is needed about toxicant-related health issues? Some lessons drawn from the Seveso dioxin case / Laura Centemeri
From suspicious illness to policy change in petrochemical regions: popular epidemiology, science, and the law in the United States and Italy / Barbara L. Allen
Guinea pigs go to court: epidemiology and class actions in Taiwan / Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng.

Part III. Putting knowledge, ignorance, and regulation into perspective
Reckless laws, contaminated people: science reveals legal shortcomings in public health protections / Carl F. Cranor
Untangling ignorance in environmental risk assessment / Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards
Low-dose toxicology: narratives from science-transcience interface / Sheldon Krimsky
Unruly technologies and fractured oversight: toward a model for chemical control for the twenty-first century / Jody A. Roberts.