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

" (...)This new population, named poterpili (sufferers), numbered 3.5 milion and constituted 7 percent of the population. A political economy of Chernobyl-related illnesses with new kinds of social categories and hierarchies of entitlement was emerging. An individual classified as "disabled" received the best entitlement package as compared with a mere "sufferer." Nonsufferers, that is, people outside the Chernobyl compensation system, had even less or no chance of receiving state social benefits. Scientific know-how became essential to the negotiation of everyday life and the maintenance of one's status in the Chernobyl system One had to know one's dose and be able to relate it to one's symptoms and work experiences in the Zone of Exclusion."