Glyphosate and the swirl : an agroindustrial chemical on the move / Vincanne Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Vincanne, 1959- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Critical global health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Medical policy.

Glyphosate--Toxicology.

Glyphosate.

Herbicides--Toxicology.

Herbicides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Glyphosate and the Swirl is an ethnography of the agricultural chemical glyphosate (the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup) that engages in the debate over the safety of the chemical in the scientific and activist communities. Vincanne Adams argues that glyphosate is an unstable and unreliable actor that has caused chemical harm despite the fact that it has radically changed our food production. Embracing speculation as integral to the scientific process, Adams theorizes the "swirl"-an unstable body that is constantly moving, concentrating and dissipating, gaining traction and losing it, and refusing to settle-to describe both the circulation of glyphosate in our environment and the evolution of public and scholarly knowledge about it."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

From blossoms

Building the food chemosphere

Ontological multiplicity & glyphosate's safety

Chemical life, clinical encounters

The scientific consensus & the counterfactual

Consensuses, academic capitalism & the swirl

Glyphosate becomes an activist

Chemicals as agents of care.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Adams, Vincanne, 1959- Glyphosate and the swirl.

ISBN:

9781478024033

1478024038

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.