Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal

by Noémi Tousignant

In the industrialized nations of the global North, well-funded agencies like the CDC attend to citizens' health, monitoring and treating for toxic poisons like lead. How do the under-resourced nations of the global South meet such challenges? In Edges of Exposure, No mi Tousignant traces the work of toxicologists in Senegal as they have sought to warn of and remediate the presence of heavy metals and other poisons in their communities. Situating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822371243
• ISBN13: 9780822371243
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"