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Chemical Exposures

Toxicity in the Anthropocene

Edited by Sahra Gibbon, Emilie Glazer, Lucy Sabin, and Andrew Barry

University College London, 2026

This cutting-edge study traces how chemical exposures are lived, experienced, sensed, and registered, foregrounding new conceptual and methodological approaches in science and technology studies.

Exposure to toxic chemicals has become commonplace, yet the study of both chemicals and toxicity has tended to remain at the margins of the social sciences. This volume addresses the entangled landscape of toxic chemicals in the Anthropocene, drawing together research by anthropologists, geographers, artists, and scholars in science and technology studies. The contributors understand chemical pollution as not simply pervasive, but multiple, situated, unequal, and profoundly relational and affective, traversing temporal and spatial scales as it continuously disrupts and reconfigures the relations between the geological and the human, the political and the material, and the social and natural sciences and humanities. Chemical Exposures explores the accumulation of toxic substances in society, the multiple scales of exposure, and the diverse ways in which exposure can be both sensed and visualized.

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Critical Medical Anthropology

Perspectives in and from Latin America

Edited by Jennie Gamlin, Sahra Gibbon, Paola Sesia, and Lina Berrío

University College London, 2020

Critical Medical Anthropology presents inspiring new work from scholars engaged with and carrying out ethnographic research in or from Latin America, addressing themes of central importance to contemporary perspectives on Critical Medical Anthropology (CMA). This includes issues of health inequalities, embodiment of history, indigenous health, non-communicable diseases, social justice, gendered violence, migration, substance abuse, reproductive politics and the judicialisation of health. It includes work spanning four countries in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Peru) as well as the trans-migratory contexts they connect and are defined by. By drawing on diverse social practices it addresses themes of central relevance to medical anthropology and global health, including reproduction and maternal health, sex work, rare and chronic disease and the use of pharmaceuticals and incorporating questions of agency, identity, reproductive politics, indigenous health, and human rights.
 
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