Ne jamais conclure
Epidemiological studies on the health of populations living around a polluting site have in common their inconclusive nature, whether they concern hazardous waste storage sites or incinerators, petrochemical plants or relay stations. This is also the case of the studies produced after the controvers...
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| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/15977 |
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| Summary: | Epidemiological studies on the health of populations living around a polluting site have in common their inconclusive nature, whether they concern hazardous waste storage sites or incinerators, petrochemical plants or relay stations. This is also the case of the studies produced after the controversy over the risk of childhood leukaemia around La Hague nuclear waste reprocessing plant in France, that do not provide conclusive causal evidence on the environmental origin of the pathologies. This article aims to analyze and characterize the different types of studies, with a view to showing that they have unexplained presuppositions linked to both the disciplinary logic of environmental epidemiology, which circumscribes causal reasoning, and to the mode of risk assessment in radiation protection, which confers a central status to the “Life Span Study”, whose dose-response relationship is erected as a reference. We thus seek to demonstrate that the maintenance of a high level of uncertainty over a long period of time appears to be the result of a science under constraints. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |