Overview

In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments. Drawing on fieldwork in a Nanjing, China, toxicology lab that studies the influence of pesticides and other pollutants on male reproductive and developmental health, Lamoreaux shows how the lab's everyday research practices bring national, hormonal, dietary, maternal, and laboratory environments into being. She situates the lab's work within broader Chinese history as well as the contemporary cultural and political moment, in which declining fertility rates and reproductive governance and technology are growing concerns. She also points to how toxicology in China is a transnational endeavor tied to both local conditions and international research agendas and infrastructures, which highlights the myriad scales and scope of epigenetic environments. At a moment of growing concerns about toxins, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and climate change, Lamoreaux demonstrates that epigenetic research's proliferation of environments produces new kinds of toxic relations that impact multiple generations of humans.

Full Product Details

9781478019336

Table of Contents

Reviews

""Infertile Environments is concise and approachable, deftly rendering complex topics in the fields of environmental epigenetics, reproductive toxicology, medical and reproductive anthropology, and science and technology studies (STS)."" -- Jessica P. Cerdeña * Journal of Anthropological Research *

"""Infertile Environments is concise and approachable, deftly rendering complex topics in the fields of environmental epigenetics, reproductive toxicology, medical and reproductive anthropology, and science and technology studies (STS)."" -- Jessica P. Cerdeña * Journal of Anthropological Research *"

Author Information

Janelle Lamoreaux is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and coeditor of the Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health, and Society.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available