Alissa Cordner is assistant professor of sociology at Whitman College and coauthor (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Peter Klein, and Stephanie Savell) of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014).

Toxic Safety is an excellent contribution to environmental and medical social science, and it will be of interest to scholars in sociology, anthropology, and environmental studies. It is also and important resource for activists involved in civic movements for environmental health and environmental justice and for anyone motivated to build a society free of toxic substances.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety4. Strategic Science Translation5. Negotiating Science6. Science of AdvocacyConclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical JusticeAppendix. Playing the Field: Methodological ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex

Alissa Cordner is assistant professor of sociology at Whitman College and coauthor (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Peter Klein, and Stephanie Savell) of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014).

Toxic Safety is an excellent contribution to environmental and medical social science, and it will be of interest to scholars in sociology, anthropology, and environmental studies. It is also and important resource for activists involved in civic movements for environmental health and environmental justice and for anyone motivated to build a society free of toxic substances.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety4. Strategic Science Translation5. Negotiating Science6. Science of AdvocacyConclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical JusticeAppendix. Playing the Field: Methodological ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex

Alissa Cordner is assistant professor of sociology at Whitman College and coauthor (with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Peter Klein, and Stephanie Savell) of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life (2014).

Toxic Safety is an excellent contribution to environmental and medical social science, and it will be of interest to scholars in sociology, anthropology, and environmental studies. It is also and important resource for activists involved in civic movements for environmental health and environmental justice and for anyone motivated to build a society free of toxic substances.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Uncertain Science and the Fight for Environmental Health2. Hot Topics: Flame Retardants in the Public Sphere3. Defending Risk and Defining Safety4. Strategic Science Translation5. Negotiating Science6. Science of AdvocacyConclusion: The Pursuit of Chemical JusticeAppendix. Playing the Field: Methodological ReflectionsNotesReferencesIndex