The Politics of Invisibility : Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl /
Olga Kuchinskaya explores how we know what we know about Chernobyl, describing how the consequences of a nuclear accident were made invisible. The analysis sheds valuable light on how we deal with other modern hazards - toxins or global warming - that are largely imperceptible to the human senses. T...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Articulating the signs of danger
- The work of living with it
- Waves of Chernobyl invisibility
- Twice invisible
- No clear evidence
- Setting the limits of knowledge
- Conclusion
- Appendix : data and methodology.