Life Exposed Biological Citizens after Chernobyl

Name: Life Exposed Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
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ISBN: 9780691151663

ISBN-10: 0691151660

ISBN-13: 9780691151663

Edition: 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Adriana Petryna

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects.Life Exposedis the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Adriana Petryna is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of "When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects" and the coeditor of "When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health" (both Princeton).



List of Figures and Tables


Introduction to the 2013 Edition


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration



Life Politics after Chernobyl


Time Lapse


A Technogenic Catastrophe


Nation Building


Experimental Systems


Docta Ignorantia


The Unstoppable Course of Radiation Illness



Technical Error: Measures of Life and Risk


A Foreign Burden


Saturated Grid


Institute of Biophysics, Moscow


Soviet-American Cooperation


Safe Living Politics


Life Sciences


Risk In Vivo



Chernobyl in Historical Light


How to Remember Then


New City of Bila-Skala


Vitalii


Contracts of Truth


Oksana


Anna


Requiem for Storytelling



Illness as Work: Human Market Transition


City of Sufferers


Capitalist Transition


Nothing to Buy and Nothing to Sell


Medical-Labor Committees


Disability Claims


Illness for Life



Biological Citizenship


Remediation Models


Normalizing Catastrophe


Suffering and Medical Signs


Domestic Neurology


Disability Groups


Law, Medicine, and Corruption


Material Basis of Health



Local Science and Organic Processes


Social Rebuilding


Radiation Research


Between the Lesional and the Psychosocial


New Sociality


Doctor-Patient Relations


No One Is Hiding Anything Anymore


In the Middle of the Experiment



Self and Social Identity in Transition


Anton and Halia


Beyond the Family: Kvartyra and Public Voice


Medicalized Selves


Everyday Violence


Lifetime



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index