超越抽样主义:重新思考暴露科学领域
1College UC & Instituto para el Desarrollo Sustentable, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Social studies of science
|October 19, 2024
概括
环境污染评估受到"抽样"的限制,这种方法过度简化了现场工作. 这种方法忽视了关键的环境数据,降低了暴露科学在保护风险人群方面的有效性.
科学领域:
- 环境科学 环境科学
- 科学社会学科学社会学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 工业资本主义导致了广泛的环境污染,需要对人类和非人类人口进行强有力的毒性评估.
- 目前用于评估环境毒性的科学方法具有严重的局限性,阻碍其保护弱势群体的能力.
- 暴露科学旨在了解和减轻环境污染物的健康影响.
研究的目的:
- 批判性地分析环境污染评估中使用的方法.
- 揭示现行现场评估实践的缺陷,称为"抽样".
- 为暴露科学实地工作提出更全面的方法.
主要方法:
- 对两个实地活动的民族学分析,重点是评估智利北部的污染地区.
- 检查环境现场工作中的"抽样"现象.
- 对现场实践如何影响科学知识生产的定性评估.
主要成果:
- 现场活动经常表现出"样本主义",将复杂的环境减少到简化,以实验室为中心的样本采集.
- 这种简化导致忽视了与污染评估相关的关键现场现象.
- 采样的局限性大大降低了暴露科学为保护措施提供信息的能力.
结论:
- 抽样是当前环境污染评估策略中的一个关键缺陷.
- 暴露科学需要向更加生态知情的实地研究转变范式.
- 开发与现场复杂性的有能力的参与,对于准确的污染评估和公共卫生保护至关重要.
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