TY - JOUR
T1 - “Passing Down Pollution”
T2 - (Inter)generational Toxicology and (Epi)genetic Environmental Health
AU - Lamoreaux, Janelle
N1 - Funding Information: : Research that contributed to this article was supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the University of Arizona Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. Thank you to the toxicologists who shared their time, practices, and perspectives during my fieldwork in Nanjing, to my research assistants M. Bailey Stephenson and Siwei Wu, and to Sahra Gibbon, Katharine Dow, and the additional collaborators on this special issue including the editorial staff at . Acknowledgments Medical Anthropology Quarterly Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the American Anthropological Association
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Concern about the harmful health effects of industrial pollution is increasingly taking on an intergenerational dimension. In environmental health sciences such as toxicology, this has resulted in emphasizing the influence of toxic chemicals, substances, and situations across generations. Toxic relationalities are now being explored through research on gene–environment interaction, including toxicogenomics and epigenetic research through animal experiments and birth cohort studies. Based on fieldwork conducted among reproductive and developmental toxicologists working in Nanjing, China, this article shows how toxicological research both expresses and produces renewed anxieties about “passing down pollution.” These toxicological accounts of intergenerational harm problematically work through overly simplistic renderings of reproduction and biological relatedness. But they also have the potential to catalyze creative understandings of toxic relationalities and responsibilities at a moment when making kin is increasingly seen as key to securing livable futures. [toxicology, environment, epigenetics, kinship, China].
AB - Concern about the harmful health effects of industrial pollution is increasingly taking on an intergenerational dimension. In environmental health sciences such as toxicology, this has resulted in emphasizing the influence of toxic chemicals, substances, and situations across generations. Toxic relationalities are now being explored through research on gene–environment interaction, including toxicogenomics and epigenetic research through animal experiments and birth cohort studies. Based on fieldwork conducted among reproductive and developmental toxicologists working in Nanjing, China, this article shows how toxicological research both expresses and produces renewed anxieties about “passing down pollution.” These toxicological accounts of intergenerational harm problematically work through overly simplistic renderings of reproduction and biological relatedness. But they also have the potential to catalyze creative understandings of toxic relationalities and responsibilities at a moment when making kin is increasingly seen as key to securing livable futures. [toxicology, environment, epigenetics, kinship, China].
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U2 - 10.1111/maq.12679
DO - 10.1111/maq.12679
M3 - Article
C2 - 35066932
SN - 0745-5194
VL - 35
SP - 529
EP - 546
JO - Medical anthropology quarterly
JF - Medical anthropology quarterly
IS - 4
ER -