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Alexi Martin

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Adriana Petryna is a professor of antropology. She is interested in cultrual and polticial aspects of science and medicine in Eastern Eurpoe. She teaches at Penn State.

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Alexi Martin

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Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

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How is the argument or narrative made and sustained? How much scientific information is provided, for example? Does the film have emotional appeal?

It is made and sustained through interviews of people who were there in the powr plant during the event, the surrounding citizens in the villages, Americans who came to intervene on their citizens, and people in Japan's government. Film footage is used to support the argument. The scientific information that is provided for support in the film was saying the levels of radiation around the plant as the situation became better and worse, the structure of the power plant (briefly), how to stop a nuclear meltdown.

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Alexi Martin

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

The author is Byron Good, he is an American medical anthropologist studying mental illness at Harvard University . His work focuses on mental illness in Asian and Indonesian socities.

Where food, water, supplies are being given out in Southeast Louisiana; see parish-by-parish list

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

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Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

How is the argument or narrative made and sustained? How much scientific information is provided, for example? Does the film have emotional appeal?

pece_annotation_1479081735

The Narrative Representation of illness

Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.