Petryna Life Exposed

Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
With a New introduction by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4509-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Petryna, Adriana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).