Toxic Environments, Toxic Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Workshop, Baton Rouge, LA; March 2, 2007

介绍ASEH（美国环境史学会）建议组织和主办一个跨学科的研讨会，汇集了科学家，环境历史学家和科学史学家，讨论环境健康的新方法。该研讨会名为“有毒环境，有毒身体”，将在路易斯安那州的巴吞鲁日举行，将包括圆桌讨论，然后参观巴吞鲁日和新奥尔良之间的“化学走廊”，使与会者能够与直接受环境健康问题影响的社区接触，同时继续圆桌会议上开始的讨论。从这些讨论中获得的结论和信息将发表在同行评审的期刊《环境史》上。知识价值检测毒素，特别是内分泌干扰物的新技术和方法，已经引起人们越来越多地关注合成化学品在我们生活中的普遍和持久存在。正如环境历史学家和科学历史学家所表明的那样，传统的毒理学概念框架，如剂量-反应关系，不足以处理内分泌干扰物和其他低剂量环境毒素。要理解21世纪的新化学体，就需要新的概念框架。科学家和政策制定者正在努力创建这些新的框架，历史学家可以通过提供早期框架失败的观点和提供理解不确定性概念变化的新工具来提供帮助。这个跨学科的研讨会可以帮助那些在环境史工作的人重新思考我们如何理解科学以及我们如何与科学家和公众沟通的问题，它可以帮助科学家理解毒理学历史方法的价值。更广泛的影响研讨会的五篇文章将出现在同行评审期刊《环境史》中，专门讨论环境健康的特刊。为了继续在研讨会上开始的跨学科对话，科学家和历史学家将共同撰写论文，其中至少包括两名科学作者。ASEH还将在其网站上发布来自研讨会的教学单元，其中包括地理信息系统有毒场地层等材料，这些材料将有毒沉积物的历史地图与高发病率地区联系起来。这些材料将向所有人开放。教学单位的观众包括本科生和研究生以及对社区中污染和疾病相关性感兴趣的人。ASEH成员和其他访问我们网站的人要求在线教学资源，表明对这些材料的兴趣和受众。我们将与发言者合作，以确定在路易斯安那州和其他地方感兴趣的团体，并将发送公告，一旦教学单元张贴。

IntroductionThe ASEH (American Society for Environmental History) proposes to organize and host an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together scientists, environmental historians, and historians of science to discuss new methodological approaches in environmental health. Called "Toxic Environments, Toxic Bodies," this workshop will take place in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and will include roundtable discussions followed by a visit to the "chemical corridor" between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, allowing participants to engage with communities affected directly by environmental health concerns, while continuing the discussions begun in the roundtable. The conclusions and information gained from these discussions will be published in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental History.Intellectual MeritNew technologies and methods for the detection of toxins, particularly endocrine disruptors, have drawn increasing attention toward the pervasive and persistent presence of synthetic chemicals in our lives. As environmental historians and historians of science have shown, the traditional conceptual frameworks of toxicology, such as dose-response relationships, are inadequate tools for dealing with endocrine disruptors and other low-dose environmental toxins. Understanding the new chemical bodies of the twenty-first century requires new conceptual frameworks. Scientists and policymakers are struggling to create these new frameworks, and historians can help both by providing perspective on how earlier frameworks failed and by providing new tools for understanding changing conceptions of uncertainty. This interdisciplinary workshop can help those working in environmental history to rethink questions of how we understand science and how we communicate with scientists and the public, and it can help scientists understand the value of a historical approach to toxicology.Broader ImpactsFive articles from the workshop will appear in the peer-reviewed journal, Environmental History, in a special issue devoted to environmental health. To continue the interdisciplinary dialogue begun at the workshop, scientists and historians will co-author papers, and the set will include at least two scientific authors. ASEH will also post teaching units derived from the workshop on its website, featuring materials such as Geographic Information Systems layers of toxic sites that correlate historical maps of toxic deposits with areas of high rates of illness. These materials will be accessible to everyone. The audience for the teaching units includes undergraduate and graduate students as well as people interested in correlating contamination and illness in their communities. ASEH members and others who visit our website have requested online teaching resources, indicating an interest and an audience for these materials. We will work with the speakers to identify interested groups in Louisiana and elsewhere, and will send announcements once the teaching units are posted.