Noémi Tousignant. Edges of Exposure: Toxicology and the Problem of Capacity in Postcolonial Senegal, Durham, N.C./London: Duke University Press, 2018.

In Edges of Exposure, Noémi Tousignant, a lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London, traces the history of toxicology in Senegal, West Africa, from independence (1960) to the first decade of the 2000s. Tousignant offers original insight into the situatedness of scientific knowledge, its practices and public uses, in the historical processes, political conflicts, and economic dynamics at stake in the global scenario.