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Title:
Life exposed : biological citizens after Chernobyl
Author:
Petryna, Adriana, 1966- author.
ISBN:
9781400845095
Edition:
New ed. / with a new introduction by the author.
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
General Note:
Previous edition: 2002.
Abstract:
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?
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1r2fhhCopies:
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