YorkSpace has migrated to a new version of its software. Access our Help Resources to learn how to use the refreshed site. Contact diginit@yorku.ca if you have any questions about the migration.
 

Toxic Enactments: Materializing Estrogen and Regulation Under Canada's Food and Drugs Act, 1939-1953

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorScott, Dayna N.
dc.creatorTessaro, Lara Jessie
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-21T13:57:23Z
dc.date.available2018-11-21T13:57:23Z
dc.date.copyright2018-08-27
dc.date.issued2018-11-21
dc.date.updated2018-11-21T13:57:23Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThe study describes how estrogen was standardized in Canada, in the 1940s and early 1950s, under the Food and Drugs Act. Contributing to interdisciplinary conversations, it provides an empirical case of how regulatory practices enact material realities. Using archival material, the study describes how estrogen was achieved, in part, through heterogeneous practices of the Canadian Committee on Pharmacopoeial Standards, National Health, and government solicitors. These regulators disagreed on whether, how, and by whom estrogens should be standardized. Rather than resolve these disagreements, Canada enacted multiple regulations purporting to standardize estrogen, and government solicitors practiced techniques of validating to render the regulations as lawful. I argue that these regulatory enactments materialized estrogen as a potent, unpredictable, and multiple object. Further, I show how estrogen spawned novel regulatory techniques in Canada, particularly the use of consumer product labels. In this way, estrogen catalyzed an early example of risk regulation in Canada.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/35590
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectHistory of science
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsLegal history
dc.subject.keywordsScience and technology studies
dc.subject.keywordsEnactment
dc.subject.keywordsPharmaceuticals
dc.subject.keywordsDrugs
dc.subject.keywordsEstrogen
dc.subject.keywordsLabeling
dc.titleToxic Enactments: Materializing Estrogen and Regulation Under Canada's Food and Drugs Act, 1939-1953
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Tessaro_Lara_J_2018_Masters.pdf
Size:
3.86 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.38 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Law

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.