E dges of Exposure is a powerful contribution to ethnographically grounded STS research focused on toxicology, global environmental health science, and what might be termed postcolonial laboratory life. Focusing on the various ways in which toxicologists in postcolonial Senegal confront, negotiate, and make-do with political and economic conditions that directly or indirectly interrupt the practice of toxicological science itself, Noémi Tousignant argues that studying toxicology in Senegal is a matter of further understanding the interlinked postcolonial situations, infrastructures, and financial flows contributing to the “struggle for toxicological capacity” (16). The book draws careful attention to the making and unmaking, the doing and undoing, the thinking and unthinking of toxicological practice, possibility, and capacity. It explores these processes in a postcolonial Senegal confronting not simply the enduring debt stressors of structural adjustment programs, but also a struggle for the right to the development of appropriate science and technology resources and tools to effectively meet poison control and mitigation goals. Edges of Exposure, in this way, is a story of the complex navigation of the science, technology, and governance practices that toxicologists in Senegal face and what they do and hope to do as postcolonial agents, toxicological experts, and concerned Senegalese citizens. The struggle chronicled in this important study is also one about the very globalization of technoscience itself and the politics of equivalence that often creep up and even dominate the focus of “global” STS studies.

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暴露的边缘：毒理学和后殖民塞内加尔的能力问题 Noémi Tousignant

Edges of Exposure 对以人种学为基础的 STS 研究做出了强有力的贡献，这些研究侧重于毒理学、全球环境健康科学以及可能被称为后殖民实验室生活的事物。Noémi Tousignant 着眼于后殖民塞内加尔毒理学家面对、谈判和应对直接或间接中断毒理学实践的政治和经济条件的各种方式，认为在塞内加尔研究毒理学是进一步理解的问题相互关联的后殖民情况、基础设施和资金流动促成了“毒理学能力之争”（16）。这本书特别关注毒理学实践、可能性和能力的形成和取消、实施和撤销、思考和不思考。它探讨了后殖民时代塞内加尔的这些过程，不仅要面对结构调整计划的持久债务压力，还要为开发适当的科学技术资源和工具的权利而奋斗，以有效实现毒物控制和缓解目标。以这种方式，暴露的边缘是一个关于塞内加尔毒理学家面临的科学、技术和治理实践的复杂导航的故事，以及他们作为后殖民代理人、毒理学专家和关心的塞内加尔公民所做和希望做的事情。在这项重要研究中记录的斗争也是关于技术科学本身的全球化和对等政治的斗争，这些政治经常蔓延甚至主导“全球”STS研究的焦点。