Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl

by Adriana Petryna

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691151660
• ISBN13: 9780691151663
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent and Intriguing

This is an excellent, detailed book defining the emergence of the concept of the biological citizen and the way in which this has reshaped the state and victims of Chernobyl. Highly recommended if you are interested in the way in which the concept of the body changes with situations.