Title Infertile environments: epigenetic toxicology and the reproductive health of Chinese men / Janelle Lamoreaux

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 135 pages) : illustrations Series Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography Critical global health. Contents The National Environment -- The Hormonal Environment -- The Dietary Environment -- The Maternal Environment -- The Laboratory Environment Summary "In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments. Drawing on fieldwork in a Nanjing, China, toxicology lab that studies the influence of pesticides and other pollutants on male reproductive and developmental health, Lamoreaux shows how the lab's everyday research practices bring national, hormonal, dietary, maternal, and laboratory environments into being. She situates the lab's work within broader Chinese history as well as the contemporary cultural and political moment, in which declining fertility rates and reproductive governance and technology are growing concerns. She also points to how toxicology in China is a transnational endeavor tied to both local conditions and international research agendas and infrastructures, which highlights the myriad scales and scope of epigenetic environments. At a moment of growing concerns about toxins, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and climate change, Lamoreaux demonstrates that epigenetic research's proliferation of environments produces new kinds of toxic relations that impact multiple generations of humans."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Endocrine disrupting chemicals -- Environmental aspects Environmental health -- Research -- China Genetic toxicology -- Research -- China Infertility, Male -- Research -- China Male reproductive health -- Research -- China Medical anthropology -- Research -- China Reproductive toxicology -- Research -- China Toxicology -- Research -- China Environmental health -- Research. Medical anthropology -- Research. SCIENCE / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural Toxicology -- Research. China. Form Electronic book ISBN 147802397X 1478093056 9781478023975 9781478093053

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