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Author Petryna, Adriana, 1966- author.

Title Life exposed : biological citizens after Chernobyl / Adriana Petryna.

Imprint Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2013.

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Edition New ed. / with a new introduction by the author.
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Note Previous edition: 2002.
Print version record.
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?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.
Subject Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Health aspects.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Social aspects.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Environmental aspects.
Radioactive pollution -- Ukraine.
Radiation injuries.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl, Ukraine, 1986.
Radiation Injuries
Radioactive Hazard Release
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
Air Pollution, Radioactive -- adverse effects
Socioeconomic Factors
Water Pollution, Radioactive -- adverse effects
Ukraine
Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Aspect social.
Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Aspect de l'environnement.
Pollution radioactive -- Ukraine.
Mal des rayons.
Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Safety.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Radiation injuries
Radioactive pollution
Social aspects
Ukraine https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkMMfGYRhk8WcWRp3xJjC
Ukraine -- Chornobyl https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxhjcjg7VXhxPYBkVCxXd
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (Chornobyl, Ukraine : 1986) (OCoLC)fst00853649 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBb7vQc9YbXW84PYVjK
Chronological Term 1986
Other Form: Print version: Petryna, Adriana, 1966- Life exposed. New ed. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2013 9780691151663 (OCoLC)812686428
ISBN 9781400845095 (electronic bk.)
1400845092 (electronic bk.)
9780691151663
0691151660
9781299387867
1299387861
Standard No. AU@ 000054193130
CHBIS 011058619
CHVBK 498860728
DEBBG BV042523064
DEBBG BV043086620
DEBBG BV044169291
DEBSZ 42135464X
DEBSZ 431254303
DEBSZ 434816671
GBVCP 1003727859
GBVCP 804507627
NLGGC 395089034

 
    
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