Sara Shostak
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780520275171
- eISBN:
- 9780520955240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520275171.003.0008
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
The conclusion summarizes the argument made in the book, provides an update on current research initiatives focused on gene-environment interaction (e.g., epigenetics, exposomics, and Environmental ...
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The conclusion summarizes the argument made in the book, provides an update on current research initiatives focused on gene-environment interaction (e.g., epigenetics, exposomics, and Environmental Wide Association Studies [EWAS]), and then returns to questions about how to understand the structural vulnerabilities of scientific fields that are located in politically contentious arenas. It elaborates the need for alternative strategies to address the ongoing structural vulnerabilities of the environmental health sciences-approaches that go beyond the consensus critique. It concludesby suggesting directions for future research and opportunities for new forms of public discourse about the multiple determinants of population health.Less
The conclusion summarizes the argument made in the book, provides an update on current research initiatives focused on gene-environment interaction (e.g., epigenetics, exposomics, and Environmental Wide Association Studies [EWAS]), and then returns to questions about how to understand the structural vulnerabilities of scientific fields that are located in politically contentious arenas. It elaborates the need for alternative strategies to address the ongoing structural vulnerabilities of the environmental health sciences-approaches that go beyond the consensus critique. It concludesby suggesting directions for future research and opportunities for new forms of public discourse about the multiple determinants of population health.
