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Zusatztext "[Chernobyl] is a dramatic and important story, and Life Exposed is a compelling book. . . . [A]n important study that will interest a wide anthropological audience." ---Jonathan P. Parry, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Informationen zum 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). Klappentext "An ethnographic triumph. Life Exposed is as powerful an analysis of national technical processes of managing risks as I have ever read. Yet it is also a moving meditation on the aftermath of disaster, including the moral and medical morass faced by those who negotiate its world of disability." --Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables xi Introduction to the 2013 Edition xiii Acknowledgments xxxiii Note on Transliteration xxxvii Chapter 1 Life Politics after Chernobyl 1 Time Lapse 1 A Technogenic Catastrophe 9 Nation Building 20 Experimental Systems 25 Docta Ignorantia 27 The Unstoppable Course of Radiation Illness 32 Chapter 2 Technical Error: Measures of Life and Risk 34 A Foreign Burden 34 Saturated Grid 36 Institute of Biophysics! Moscow 39 Soviet-American Cooperation 41 Safe Living Politics 49 Life Sciences 55 Risk In Vivo 59 Chapter 3 Chernobyl in Historical Light 63 How to Remember Then 64 New City of Bila-Skala 66 Vitalii 67 Contracts of Truth 69 Oksana 70 Anna 72 Requiem for Storytelling 76 Chapter 4 Illness as Work: Human Market Transition 82 City of Sufferers 82 Capitalist Transition 92 Nothing to Buy and Nothing to Sell 94 Medical-Labor Committees 102 Disability Claims 107 Illness for Life 113 Chapter 5 Biological Citizenship 115 Remediation Models 115 Normalizing Catastrophe 119 Suffering and Medical Signs 121 Domestic Neurology 126 Disability Groups 130 Law! Medicine! and Corruption 138 Material Basis of Health 143 Chapter 6 Local Science and Organic Processes 149 Social Rebuilding 149 Radiation Research 151 Between the Lesional and the Psychosocial 156 New Sociality 165 Doctor-Patient Relations 174 No One Is Hiding Anything Anymore 176 In the Middle of the Experiment 181 Chapter 7 Self and Social Identity in Transition 191 Anton and Halia 191 Beyond the Family: Kvartyra and Public Voice 194 Medicalized Selves 201 Everyday Violence 206 Lifetime 212 Chapter 8 Conclusion 215 Notes 221 Bibliography 239 Index 253 ...
