TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Figures and Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Note on Transliteration xvii 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 Life113 Chapter 5: Biological Citizenship 115 Remediation Models 115 Normalizing Catastrophe119 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
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