Outputs

Andrea Azizi Kifyasi examined how HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns expanded the use of disposable products while creating new waste-management pressures in Tanzania.

Jeremy Greene revisited the medical “plastics problem” of the 1960s and the regulatory sciences that helped earlier evidence of synthetic harms to be forgotten.

Bruno Strasser and Eloïse Richards examined how toxic ethylene oxide gas enabled the expansion of disposable medical plastics while its risks were made less visible.

Anne Kveim Lie joined an online training session for infection-control personnel in Norway, examining how disposable equipment became associated with cleanliness and safety in healthcare.