死了幾位電子廠女工之後：有機溶劑的健康風險爭議

In this study, I review and discuss the health risk controversies of organic solvents. I reconstruct the solvent's usage and working environment in RCA's factory before its closure in 1992. I also examine the ”undone science” of the health risks of organic solvents from the perspective of the ”New Political Sociology of Science”.I find that after the Philco case in the 1970s, RCA continued using and promoting the safety of trichloroethylene. Due to its poor ventilation systems, RCA's factory was filled with solvents until 1988. Not only did the RCA factory pollute the ground water with organic solvents, they had eight occupational solvent regulation violations. Taiwanese RCA epidemiological studies suffered from incomplete and crippled databases, and underestimated the health hazards to the workers. I further examined the toxicological and occupational studies of trichloroethylene. These revealed that there were gender, class and racial inequalities in the production of scientific evidence. I conclude that scientific research has complicated political, economic, legal and social contexts. There was undone science in both the RCA health research in Taiwan and in the international scientific research on the health risks of organic solvents. Finally, the government and RCA ignored their duties in protecting the health of workers.