Life Exposed by Adriana Petryna
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. This book examines the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. It provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, and the nature of citizenship claims.
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 scope of the human tragedy caused by this man-made catastrophe comes to the fore via biological stories of Petryna's informants... Most of the book's heroes were directly affected by radioactive fallout and often paid a terrible price, losing their physical and mental health. -- Larissa Remennick Journal of the American Medical Association [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
Adriana Petryna is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the New School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691090191 |
| ISBN 10 | 069109019X |
| Title | Life Exposed |
| Author | Adriana Petryna |
| Series | In-Formation |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2002-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Society for Medical Anthropology: New Millennium Book Award 2006, Winner of Sharon Stevens First Book Prize 2004 |
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