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Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Adriana Petryna
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Description for Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Paperback. On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are suffering the effects. This title examines the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. 2 line illus. 2 tables. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; JFFC; RNQ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151663
SKU
V9780691151663
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About Adriana Petryna
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).
Reviews for Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Winner of the 2006 New Millenium Award, Society of Medical Anthropology Co-Winner of the 2003 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society "Petryna's ethnographic approach consciously shapes her account and illuminates it with detail that historians of the future will treasure."
Jeanne Guillemin, Medical Humanities Review "The book presents exceptionally rich anthropological material generated through observations and interviews... The true ... Read more
Jeanne Guillemin, Medical Humanities Review "The book presents exceptionally rich anthropological material generated through observations and interviews... The true ... Read more