04592nam 2200721 a 450 991045247950332120200520144314.01-299-38786-11-4008-4509-210.1515/9781400845095(CKB)2550000001017479(EBL)1053774(OCoLC)836406994(SSID)ssj0000907736(PQKBManifestationID)12417784(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000907736(PQKBWorkID)10896828(PQKB)10313237(MiAaPQ)EBC1053774(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515157(OCoLC)847617263(MdBmJHUP)muse37098(DE-B1597)447675(OCoLC)1024021441(OCoLC)1029821179(OCoLC)979583107(DE-B1597)9781400845095(Au-PeEL)EBL1053774(CaPaEBR)ebr10676791(CaONFJC)MIL470036(EXLCZ)99255000000101747920120912d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLife exposed[electronic resource] biological citizens after Chernobyl /Adriana Petryna ; with a new introduction by the authorWith a New introduction by the authorPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Press20131 online resource (305 p.)Paperback reissue.0-691-09018-1 0-691-15166-0 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction to the 2013 Edition: How Did They Survive? -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexOn 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? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Health aspectsChernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Environmental aspectsRadioactive pollutionUkraineElectronic books.Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Health aspects.Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986Environmental aspects.Radioactive pollution363.1799094777Petryna Adriana1029979MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452479503321Life exposed2446678UNINA