Judge J Matthew, Brown Phil, Brody Julia Green, Ryan Serena
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2016 Sep;57(3):333-50. doi: 10.1177/0022146516661595.
This article explores the "exposure experience" of participants who received their personal results in a biomonitoring study for perfluorooctanoic acid. Exposure experience is the process of identifying, understanding, and responding to chemical contamination. When biomonitoring studies report results to participants, those participants generate an exposure experience that identifies hidden contaminants and helps level informational imbalances between polluters and affected communities. Participants welcomed the opportunity to learn their exposure results, reporting no psychological harm following report-back. They wove health, economic, and political considerations into their interpretation of results and their present views of past impact. Participants framed their experiences by a half-century of dependence on the chemical industry's economic benefits, leading them to considerable acceptance of chemical exposure as a tradeoff for jobs and the local economy. Our findings show that the exposure experience is an ongoing process that influences social action, with new activism being generated by exposure and health studies.
本文探讨了在一项全氟辛酸生物监测研究中收到个人检测结果的参与者的“接触经历”。接触经历是识别、理解和应对化学污染的过程。当生物监测研究向参与者报告结果时，这些参与者会产生一种接触经历，这种经历能识别隐藏的污染物，并有助于平衡污染者与受影响社区之间的信息不对称。参与者对有机会了解自己的接触结果表示欢迎，并报告称在得知结果后并未受到心理伤害。他们将健康、经济和政治因素融入到对结果的解读以及对过去影响的当前看法中。参与者以半个世纪以来对化工行业经济效益的依赖来构建他们的经历，这使他们相当程度地接受了化学接触是换取就业和当地经济的一种权衡。我们的研究结果表明，接触经历是一个持续影响社会行动的过程，接触和健康研究正在催生新的行动主义。
