Doctoral Dissertation Research: Defining Environmental Exposure: A Social Scientific Study of Pollution, Masculinity, and Laboratory Science

地球仪的科学家们正在研究接触有毒物质对人体细胞的影响。本研究提出了以下研究问题：科学家如何定义和测量环境暴露？科学家如何指定，测试和收集证据，以提出关于环境毒素对身体和生物的影响的主张？科学家们在什么时候才能确定“外部”化学物质和“内部”生物物质何时以及如何相互影响？科学家如何面对和利用环境退化作为在国际化研究环境中推进尖端基础实验室研究的手段？研究人员建议进行18个月的实地考察，以调查研究科学家的方法，实践，研究问题和关注的社会层面。实地工作将在实验室，系和大学会议，研究出版物和演讲准备会议进行。这项拟议中的研究将通过阐明科学家如何定义和研究环境暴露而产生广泛的影响。它有助于科学和技术研究，科学人类学和环境科学。通过研究细胞与环境毒素（主要是化学杀虫剂）相互作用的方式，这些科学家试图揭示许多国家最棘手的社会困境-如何在不迅速破坏环境质量的情况下提高公民的生活质量。

Scientists across the globe are investigating the effects of toxic exposure on human cells. This study poses the following research questions: How do scientists define and measure environmental exposure? How do scientists designate, test and collect evidence for laying claims about the effects of environmental toxins on bodies and biologies? At exactly what point do scientists feel they can identify when and how 'external' chemicals and 'internal' biologies affect each other? How are scientists both confronted with and using environmental degradation as the means through which to advance cutting-edge basic laboratory research in an internationalized research climate? The researcher proposes to conduct 18 months of fieldwork in order to investigate the social dimensions of research scientists' methods, practices, research questions, and concerns. Fieldwork will be conducted in laboratories, department and university meetings, and research publication and presentation preparation meetings. The proposed research will have broad impact by illuminating how scientists define and study environmental exposures. It contributes to science and technology studies, anthropology of science, and environmental science. By studying the way cells interact with environment toxins, primarily chemical pesticides, these scientists attempt to bring evidence to bare on many countries' toughest social dilemma - how to improve citizens' quality of life without quickly destroying the quality of the environment.