Convergence between human health and environmental health. Toxaphene in the Lake Superior

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Article

Publication Date

9-1-2016

Abstract

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals move from their sites of production and consumption into much broader and dispersed spaces. As they flow into water, they bioaccumulate in fish, and eventually make their way into the people who eat that fish. This paper uses one chemical - toxaphene - as a case study to explore two interconnected questions. First, how did researchers conceptualize the movements of endocrine disrupting chemicals into water, and from there into fish and people? Second, how did regulatory bodies and communities respond to growing evidence of toxic contamination from fish? The paper discusses the ways guidelines of fish consumption and norms of adaptation come to replace restrictions on industries producing the pollution.

Publication Title

Sciences Sociales et Sante

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