The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects After Chernobyl

by Olga Kuchinskaya

Book Overview

Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.

Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027690
• ISBN13: 9780262027694
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher