Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men

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Janelle Lamoreaux

Infertile Environments

Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men

Janelle Lamoreaux

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Duke University Press
03 January 2023

Social & cultural anthropology; Human reproduction, growth & development; Medical toxicology

Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

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.

By: Janelle Lamoreaux
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9781478019336
ISBN 10: 1478019336
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. The National Environment 21 2. The Hormonal Environment 35 3. The Dietary Environment 52 4. The Maternal Environment 64 5. The Laboratory Environment 77 Coda 92 Epilogue 97 Notes 103 References 109 Index 129

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