Brown University  Contested Illnesses Research Group Brown
University , Providence RI   Toxic Ignorance and the New Right-
To-Know: The Implications of Biomonitoring for Regulatory
Science  This project examines the regulatory, policy, industry,
scientific, and legal implications of chemical biomonitoring
research in the United States, due to its recent proliferation
in the government, academic and environmental health advocacy
arenas. We explore biomonitoring activities in four domains that
are currently most active and that have strong relevance to
chemicals and pollution regulation. These are national-level
population surveillance, state-based biomonitoring programs,
advocacy biomonitoring, and community-based studies that
investigate local environmental problems. Our research relies on
data generated by interviews, participant observations, media
and document analysis, and will investigate the following
themes: 1) the impacts of biomonitoring research on regulatory
science and knowledge production in envir