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

"Chernobyl also became a venue for unprecedented international scientific cooperation and human research. President Mikhail Gorbachev personally invited a team of American oncologists led by leukemia specialist Robert Gale (UCLA) to conduct experimental bone marrow transplantations upon individuals whose exposures were beyond the lethal limit and for whom these transplantations were deemed appropriate. Aditionally, 400 workers selected by Dr. Guskova and others received a genetically-engineered hematopoietic growth factor molecule (rhGM-CSF), thought to regenerate stem cell growth. Though the results of the transplantations and trial proved unsuccessful, the medical work on this cohort (and the objective indices created around them) helped consolidate an image of a biomedical crisis that was being successfully controlled by cutting-edge scientific applications. In an effort to alleviate the public's fear, Dr. Gale appeared on television and walked barefoot in the zone with one of his children."