Life Exposed by Adriana Petryna
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.
Winner of the 2006 New Millenium Award, Society of Medical Anthropology Co-Winner of the 2003 Sharon Stephens First Book Prize, American Ethnological Society "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."--Larissa Remennick, Journal of the American Medical Association "There is nothing comparable. Very well written, it will be of major interest to readers in risk analysis and risk sociology, science studies, and political science, as well as to anyone interested in the consequences of megatechnologies."--Ulrich Beck, author of World at Risk "[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 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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691151663 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691151660 |
| Title | Life Exposed |
| Author | Adriana Petryna |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2013-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Prizes | Joint winner of Sharon Stevens First Book Prize 2003 |
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