SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice
Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThis article focuses more on public health concerns, rather than EMS response. She analyzes sociopolitical factors that affected the response post-Chernobyl and the impacts that had on people's lives and the healthcare they received as a result.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThe object of this study is to observe whether or not there was an overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. They did this by comparing the observed prevalance of thyroid cancer in the Thyroid Screening Programme with the estimated historical controls on the assumption that there was neither nuclear accident nor screening intervention.
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tamar.rogoszinskiThis is a chaper from the book, "Medicine, Rationality, and Experience: an anthropological perspective", which appears to have been referenced by other anthropologists.
Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.