Life exposed : biological citizens after Chernobyl /
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| Author / Creator: | Petryna, Adriana, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002. |
| Description: | xvii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | In-formation In-formation series. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4787111 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Chapter 1. Life Politics after Chernobyl
- Time Lapse
- A Technogenic Catastrophe
- Nation Building
- Experimental Systems
- Docta Ignorantia
- The Unstoppable Course of Radiation Illness
- Chapter 2. Technical Error: Measures of Life and Risk
- A Foreign Burden
- Saturated Grid
- Institute of Biophysics, Moscow
- Soviet-American Cooperation
- Safe Living Politics
- Life Sciences
- Risk In Vivo
- Chapter 3. Chernobyl in Historical Light
- How to Remember Then
- New City of Bila-Skala
- Vitalii
- Contracts of Truth
- Oksana
- Anna
- Requiem for Storytelling
- Chapter 4. Illness as Work: Human Market Transition
- City of Sufferers
- Capitalist Transition
- Nothing to Buy and Nothing to Sell
- Medical-Labor Committees
- Disability Claims
- Illness for Life
- Chapter 5. Biological Citizenship
- Remediation Models
- Normalizing Catastrophe
- Suffering and Medical Signs
- Domestic Neurology
- Disability Groups
- Law, Medicine, and Corruption
- Material Basis of Health
- Chapter 6. Local Science and Organic Processes
- Social Rebuilding
- Radiation Research
- Between the Lesional and the Psychosocial
- New Sociality
- Doctor-Patient Relations
- No One Is Hiding Anything Anymore
- In the Middle of the Experiment
- Chapter 7. Self and Social Identity in Transition
- Anton and Halia
- Beyond the Family: Kvartyra and Public Voice
- Medicalized Selves
- Everyday Violence
- Lifetime
- Chapter 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Figures and Tables
- Figure 1.. Map of Ukraine
- Figure 2.. Atmospheric Transfer Models
- Figure 3.. Map of Exclusion Zone
- Figure 4.. Incidence of Disability among Chernobyl Sufferers
- Table 1.. Data on "Symptoms, Signs, and Ill-defined States"
- Table 2.. Released Particles and Their Half-Lives
