Description |
xviii, 321 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Anthrax: Accursed Fire and Biological Weapon -- 2. Moscow: Fragments of Evidence -- 3. Moscow: Conflicting Visions -- 4. In the Urals: The Quest Begins -- 5. Autopsy Visions -- 6. The Community of the Dead: Vostochniy Cemetery -- 7. Abramova's Treasure -- 8. To Chkalovskiy Rayon -- 9. Constraints, Fears, Frustrations -- 10. Knocking on Doors -- 11. Public Health and Private Pain -- 12. The Unnatural Steals the Natural -- 13. Resignation -- 14. Vulnerability and Chance -- 15. The KGB List of Victims -- 16. Moscow Redux -- 17. Names Go to Places: Map Building Begins -- 18. Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks -- 19. Manifestation -- 20. Mirage: The Animal Outbreak -- 21. Chkalovskiy: The Final Pieces -- 22. Do No Evil, See No Evil -- 23. The Summing Up -- 24. The Threat of Bioweapons -- 25. Return to Yekaterinburg -- 26. "The World Is Global" -- App. A. List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities |
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App. B. Summary of Case Data for Known Victims of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979 |
Summary |
"In April of 1979 the city of Sverdlovsk in Russia's Ural Mountains was struck by a frightening anthrax epidemic. Official documents reported 64 human deaths resulting from the ingestion of tainted meat sold on the black market, but rumor told a different story and lack of documentation left unresolved questions. In her investigation of the incident, Jeanne Guillemin unravels the mystery of what really happened during that tragic event in Sverdlovsk." "As the team's medical anthropologist, she investigated the where-abouts of the victims and tracked the disease's progression. Because most hospital records had been lost or confiscated by the KGB, Guillemin began the arduous task of locating those who perished by gathering names at cemetery grave sites. Through persistent effort she found many of the victims' families and gently elicited their often emotional accounts of the outbreak."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Anthrax -- Russia (Federation) -- Ekaterinburg -- Epidemiology.
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Anthrax -- Russia -- Ekaterinburg -- Epidemiology
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Anthrax -- Russia -- Sverdlovsk
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Anthrax -- Russia -- Yekaterinburg -- Epidemiology
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Biological weapons -- Russia (Federation) -- Ekaterinburg.
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Biological weapons -- Russia -- Ekaterinburg
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Biological weapons -- Russia -- Yekaterinburg
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Biological weapons -- Soviet Union.
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LC no. |
99032927 |
ISBN |
0520222040 |
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0520229177 |
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