Life Exposed (eBook)

Biological Citizens after Chernobyl

Adriana Petryna (Autor)

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2013
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4509-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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? 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 "e;biological citizenship"e; 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.

Autor

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).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone. 2 line illus. 2 tables. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Accountability • activism • Acute Radiation Syndrome • Angina pectoris • Arteriosclerosis • Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission • biochemist • biological citizenship • biological injury • Biology • bioscientific collaboration • Birth Control • bone marrow failure • bureaucrat • burial • caesium-137 • Calculation • Cancer • Carcinogenesis • Catastrophe • Chernobyl • Chernobyl aftermath • Chernobyl disaster • Chernobyl explosion • Chernobyl nuclear reactor • Chernobyl sufferers • Citizenship • civil service • clinical research • Clinician • Clinicians • Compensation • Corruption • Cost–benefit analysis • curtailment • Democratization • Diagnosis • Disability • disability claims • disaster • Disease • doctorаatient relations • Dystonia • Economics • Electroencephalography • endocrinology • Environment • epidemiology • Erectile dysfunction • ethics • Exclusion • Exclusion Zone • Failure to Thrive • Families • family histories • Family history (medicine) • Fukushima 50 • God • Governance • grandparent • Gresham's law • Headache • Health • Health Care • Health Economics • Health effect • Health system • Heart Failure • Hematology • hibakusha • homo sovieticus • Hospital • hospital bed • Hot particle • Humanitarian aid • Human Rights • human subject research • human welfare • hunger strike • hypochondriasis • hysteria • Illness • Immunodeficiency • Impossibility • Institution • International Atomic Energy Agency • internment • In Utero • in utero research • laborer • lesion • lethal dose • leukemia • lichnost' • Life Expectancy • life narratives • Lung Cancer • Lysenkoism • Marshall Plan • mass grave • medical classification • Medical Diagnosis • medical examiner • Medical History • medical-labor committees • medical record • medical surveillance • Medicine • mental cases • Mental disorder • Michael Burawoy • month • multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis • narrative • Neurology • neurosis • nonsufferers • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • nuclear fallout • nuclear hazard • Nuclear power in Japan • Oppression • Organic brain syndrome • Pathology • patients • Paul Rabinow • Paul Terasaki • Payment • Pension • Personhood • Physician • Political Economy • Politics • post-Soviet Ukraine • Posttraumatic stress disorder • Probability • Psychiatrist • Psychology • Public Health • Radiation • radiation dose exposure • Radiation Laboratory (MIT) • Radiation protection • Radiation Research • Radiation Research Center • radiation scientists • Radioactive fallout • Radiophobia • Regime • Research Center • Robert Jay Lifton • Safe Living Concept • salary • Science • Scientist • self • sick role • sick role sociality • Slavutych • Social Equity • social health • Social Identity • social issue • Social protection • Social Transformation • social welfare goods • somatization • Soviet Union • State Building • State Formation • Stereotypes of Jews • strange world • sufferers • Suffering • Suicidal ideation • Symptom • syndrome • Tax • technocracy • technological disasters • Technology • The Other Hand • The Remains • Thesis • The Textbooks • Three Mile Island accident • Thyroid • Thyroid Cancer • Transplant Rejection • trofim lysenko • Ukraine • Ukrainian language • Ukrainian state • Ulrich Beck • Uncertainty • Unemployment • University of California Press • Violence • vulnerability • welfare • welfare claims • white blood cell • World Health Organization • World War II • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4509-2 / 1400845092
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4509-5 / 9781400845095