Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air pollution for public health
Enacting toxicity: epidemiology and the study of air pollution for public health
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制定毒性：流行病学和空气污染对公共卫生的研究
DOI：
10.1080/09581596.2017.1302562
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Garnett E
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作者：
Garnett E
空气污染是一种“后人类”的公共卫生现象。它借鉴了一个多学科研究项目的民族志，称为天气健康和空气污染，探索空气污染挑战科学家对伤害和健康的概念化的物质方式。世界卫生行动计划的流行病学家使用统计技术将空气污染浓度数据与医院收集的死亡率和发病率数据联系起来，以便建立暴露于空气污染对健康影响的量化措施。最初，这些相关性是有问题的：绘制的数据点未能映射时间模式。随后进行了一系列谈判。因此，“季节”的概念作为一个时间数字出现，通过它来检验空气污染的存在和意义。事实上，研究人员试图稳定毒性的概念，这表明了试图评估身体对污染环境的反应的问题，这种环境应该“已经存在”。本文最后讨论如何考虑健康的时间的物质维度的透镜允许公共卫生：第一，通过身体和环境构成的健康问题，而不是作为一个关系分离的两个;第二，打开不确定性和不确定性作为空气污染的生成条件，也许更普遍的公共卫生。
This paper presents air pollution as a ‘post-human’ public health phenomenon. It draws on an ethnography of a multidisciplinary research project called Weather Health and Air Pollution to explore the material ways in which air pollution challenged scientists’ conceptualisations of harm and health. The epidemiologists on WHAP used statistical techniques to correlate data of air pollution concentrations with mortality and morbidity data collected by hospitals in order to establish a quantified measure of the health effects of exposure to air pollution. Initially, these correlations were problematic: plotted data points failed to map over temporal patterns. A series of negotiations followed. As a result of these, the concept of ‘season’ emerged as a temporal figure through which the very existence and meaning of air pollution was put to the test. Indeed, attempts by researchers to hold stable the notion of toxicity signalled the problem of trying to assess the bodily response to a polluted environment that has supposedly ‘already been’. The paper concludes by arguing how contemplating health through the lens of the material dimensions of time allows public health to: first, view health problems as constituted through bodies and environments, rather than as a relation separating the two; and second, open up indeterminacies and uncertainties as a generative condition of air pollution, and perhaps public health more generally.
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