| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 Life Politics after Chernobyl -- Chapter 2 Technical Error: Measures of Life and Risk -- Chapter 3 Chernobyl in Historical Light -- Chapter 4 Illness as Work: Human Market Transition -- Chapter 5 Biological Citizenship -- Chapter 6 Local Science and Organic Processes -- Chapter 7 Self and Social Identity in Transition -- Chapter 8 Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 Exposed is 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 when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? |
| Notes |
Previous edition: 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Health aspects
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Social aspects
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects
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Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine
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Radiation injuries.
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.
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Radiation Injuries
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Radioactive Hazard Release
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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
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Air Pollution, Radioactive -- adverse effects
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Water Pollution, Radioactive -- adverse effects
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Radiation injuries
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Radioactive pollution
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Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Ukraine |
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Ukraine
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Ukraine -- Chornobylʹ
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400845095 |
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1400845092 |
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