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Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

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

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

The three topics I followed up upon was the countries surrounding Ukraine and their impact from the nuclear disaster, the types of radiation poisoning as well as the long term affects, and puterpili (sufferers).

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Frontline: Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown

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What kinds of action and points of intervention are suggested by the film? If the film itself does not suggest corrective action, describe actions that you can imagine being effective.

The film was shot after the event had already taken place, however in the film it mentioned interventions that were used, methods of putting water on the melting fuel rods. It also indirectly mentioned (hinted at) a need to an emergency nuclear response team internationally.

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

Three points from the article that I looked up was the familial relationships in middle eastern countries, how mental illness is viewed in eastern european countries, and the cultural aspects of a Turkish family.

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

Through looking at the bibliography I can connect the dots of the problems in Rwanda and Hati that are still not solved. This article can also be considered as a continuation of this research in that aspect.

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

Three points I followed up on to advance my understanding of emergency response was how other countries report and treat rape, rape as a war crime- is it treated or ignored and in what countries, and incidents of sexual violence that get reported and treated, and further care ( how to help others immediately) and how to respond to these events.

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The Problem of Securing Health

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

The article referenced historical events of health epidemics in preparing for the future. The lack of current data indicates an improvement in health security or a lack of research for this publication. The extensive quotes in this article show the knowledge and credibility of the article in how securing global health has many aspects.

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Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environments

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

The tools used to produce the data in this research article was direct accounts from those who have experienced violence in delievering health services, outside brainstorming from a research panal to discover how/why violence has occured or why it was not reported. Also interpretation from data that was put out by the WHO, MSF or other health organizations.

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

Emergency response is not mentioned in the article, it is briefly mentioned on how each of the disasters were handled, however the article mainly focuses on the aftermath. What had caused these disasters? And what could have been done in the future to prevent them?