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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kuchinskaya, Olga, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
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.