"Trouble with Toxics": A presentation by Kim Fortun April 17, 2009

Kim Fortun is a professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the co-editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology and some of her recent publications include Advocacy After Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders (2001), "Scientific Imaginaries and Ethical Plateaus in Contemporary U.S. Toxicology" (co-authored with Mike Fortun, 2005), and "Figuring Out Ethnography," The Ends of Fieldwork (edited by George Marcus, forthcoming). Along with her husband Mike, she is also working on The Asthma Files, a collaborative, web-based project to draw together and explicate many different perspectives on asthma -- from different scientific disciplines, from health care providers and patients and from different geographic locales.

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