TABLE OF CONTENTS: 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 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 | 
