Adriana Petryna - Life Exposed

Hammer, Armand, 44

Havenaar, J. M., 160–61

health: advocacy groups and material basis of, 143–48; analysis of biopower and, 13; citizen responsibilities regarding, 85; effects of economy on social reconstruction of, 218–20; new sociality of, 165–74; post-Hiroshima biodosimetry/radiation studies on, 53, 55; thyroid disorders and long-term effects on, 79–81. See also Chernobyl health effects; illness

Hematologiia I Transfuziologiia , 47

hematopoietic growth factors (rhGM-CSF), 46, 47

Hiroshima: biodosimetry/radiation health effects studies after, 53, 55, 165, 183–84; compensation paid to victims of, 105, 232n.29; leukemia cases following, 9, 60; studies on cancer cases following, 9; studies on human germline alterations, 10

Homo Sovieticus , 193, 238n.3

Hosplan (Soviet planning committee), 97, 98

Hotovshyts, Heorhii, 17, 77

hrobky (“day of the graves”), 91

Human Genome Initiative, 14, 58

human rights claims, subversive methods of used by powerless in, 27–29

human subjects research: international bioscientific collaboration, 45–46; internationalization of, 235n.1; local context of, 151; overdetermination of research subjects in, 183

Hunt, E. L., 162

hypodiagnostika , 176, 188

IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), 9, 10, 17, 47, 50, 52, 54, 166, 225n.9, 226n.23

identity: impact of disability status on male, 20, 191–201; linking of biology/biopower to, 14–15; processing disability claims to Chernobyl, 107–12; subbotnyk (Saturday volunteer) as part of, 198. See also personhood ( licknost’ )

identity-based illness movements, 14

ignorance: of deadly menace of Chernobyl, 86; as expression of Ukrainian self-image, 28–39; meanings of, 28; as political consequence, 30; as resource in biosocial inclusion, 32

illness: defining, 153; evidence of self-induction of, 156, 179, 203; fusing of individual/family histories/research program and, 237n.35; isolating radiation dose as contributor to, 161–62; new sociality of, 165–74; statistics on prevalence among Exclusion Zone children, 184. See also Chernobyl health effects; health

Ilyin, L. A., 39, 160

informational stress, 9

injuries. See suffering/injuries

Institute for Hereditary Diseases (Minsk), 10

Institute of Biophysics (Moscow), 2, 39–41, 183

Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism (Kyiv), 79

Institute of Oncology (Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences), 31

International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, 45

International Chernobyl Disabled Persons Aid and Charity Fund, 143, 144, 145–46, 194

International Chernobyl Project (1991), 52–53. See also Soviet-American bioscientific collaboration

International Classification of Diseases (Class 16), 32

International Monetary Fund, 114

in utero research, 184–90, 237n.34

irradiation: adaptive-compensatory processes triggered by, 120; as “demographic scissors”, 146; distribution of toxic effects of, 226n.15; drafting of new table of illnesses due to, 103; emergency measures to assess, 36, 225n.2; initial and masked damage due to, 235n.8; newborn malformations due to, 7–9, 10; repair of DNA after, 56. See also ARS (Acute Radiation Sickness)

Iryna, 198, 202, 207, 208, 210, 211, 212, 213

istoriia (history), 77

Ivan: disability claim case of, 181–84; mother on conception/delivery of, 188–90; tested during in utero research, 184–88

Ivanivna, Maria, 87–91, 96, 97

Japanese Sasakawa Fund, 159

Jensen, Ronald, 58–59

Journal of American Medical Association, 47

Katz, Edvard, 146–47, 195, 196

Kharkhordin, Oleg, 69

Khomaziuk, Inna, 127–28

Kimeldorf, D. J., 162

Komarov, 162

korenizatsiia (rooting), 22

Kozlova, Hanna, 64, 77, 78

kravchuchky (pushcarts), 132

Kravchuk, Leonid, 132

Kulchyt’ska, 67

kul’turnost’ (Stalinist civilizing process), 199, 200

Kulyk, 31

Kursk (Russian submarine), 217

kvartyra (apartment), 70, 198, 199, 206, 212

Kyiv mothers: informal organizing by, 77; meeting with minister, 78; statutes drafted by, 78–79

Kyiv Psychoneurological Hospital, 131

Kyryl, 131, 134–35, 138–43

Kyshtym plant (Ural region), 39

labor capacity: as disabled status criteria, 19, 34–35; relationship between suffering and, 35

Land of Fire (Tierra del Fuego), 69

Laschuk, Stefan, 96–97

Lavrov, Symon, 152–53

Lazjuk, Gennady, 10

LBL (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), 17, 56, 57

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Blumenberg), 28

lesional approach, 158–60

LETs (linear energy transfers), 56

leukemia cancer: Japan-based studies on, 9; narrative on child’s case of, 89

Lev: advice to Kyryl by, 140; association between Anton and, 194–95, 196, 199, 203, 204, 211; background of, 134–37; determined to upgrade disability status, 131; medical records purchased by, 143; success in upgrading disability status, 212

“levels of social acceptability” model, 115–17

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 237n.35

lichnost’. See personhood ( lichnost’ )

Life Sciences Division (LBL), 56

life sciences revolution, 14

Lifton, Robert Jay, 160

Little Halia, 192, 197, 198, 199, 201, 206, 207, 212

LLNL (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), 36

Los, Ivan, 97

Lysenko, Trofim, 119, 120

Lysenkoism, 119–20, 233n.5

marital issues, 195–96

Mauss, Marcel, 31, 200

Mayak nuclear plant, 39

media: initial denial of Chernobyl disaster in, 234n.16; objectification of suffering by, 231n.8; reports on Kursk (Russian submarine) sinking by, 217

medical documents: “aesthetics” of state intervention and, 123; bribery to “upgrade”, 122–23, 142–43; Chernobyl “tie”, 11, 19, 111, 112, 129, 216; difficulties in collecting/organizing, 140–41; evidence of symptoms in, 140; lost or destroyed, 139; showing proof of radiation dose, 230n.4; sviaz po boleznei , 102, 110. See also patients

medicalized self, 201–6

Medical-Labor Expert Commission ( Ekspertiza ): disability claim processing by, 107–12; establishment of eleven, 92, 102, 231n.12; number of claims processed by, 113; of Radiation Research Center, 102–7, 126, 127; Zone worker’s health evaluated by, 18–19

Medsanchas (medical sanitation unit), 231n.15

Medvedev, Zhores, 36, 38

mental illness diagnosis, 176. See also psychological disorders

Mickey, M. Ray, 44

Minow, Martha, 217

“Moscow center”, 97, 98

mothers. See Kyiv mothers

Mudrak, Nestor, 103–5, 109, 135, 212

Nagasaki: compensation paid to victims of, 105, 232n.29; studies following, 9, 10, 53, 183–84

Nagasaki University Scientific Data Center of the Atomic Bombing, 163–64

narratives. See social rebuilding stories

NASA, 56

Nature , 51

neurological disorders, 126–28, 233n.13, 236n.14

Neurological Division of Medical Services (Mayak nuclear plant), 39

newborn malformations, 7–9, 10

New City (Bila-Skala: Ukraine town pseudonym), 66–67

Nezdorov, Vadim, 204, 205, 206, 210–11

Nicholas of Cusa, 28

Nimenko, Ivan, 29–30, 31–32

Nimov family. See Anton; Halia; Little Halia

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 37

occupational risks, 96–97

Oil Institute, 199, 202, 207, 208

Old City (Bila-Skala: Ukraine town pseudonym), 64–66, 228n.6

Oleg, 182, 183, 185, 189

One Man’s Destiny (Sud’ba Cheloveka ) (Sholokhov), 196