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Life exposed : biological citizens after Chernobyl [E-Book]

By:

Petryna, Adriana, 1966- [author.]

Publication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2013.Edition: New ed. / with a new introduction by the authorDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781400845095
1400845092

Subject(s):

NLM classification:

2013 C-453
WN 610

Online resources:

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust OpenAthens account holders click here for access

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?

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Class number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic book	Stenhouse Library		Link to resource	Available

Previous edition: 2002.

Print version record.

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?

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-251) and index.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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