- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Principal Participants
- 1 Anthrax
- 2 Moscow
- 3 Moscow
- 4 In the Urals
- 5 Autopsy Visions
- 6 The Community Of the Dead
- 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
- 18 Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks
- 19 Manifestation
- 20 Mirage
- 21 Chkalovskiy
- 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”
- Appendix A List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities
- Appendix B Summary of Case Data for Known Victims, Including Survivors, of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979
- References
- Index
Vulnerability and Chance
Vulnerability and Chance
- Chapter:
- (p.140) 14. Vulnerability and Chance
- Source:
- Anthrax
- Author(s):
Jeanne Guillemin
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter considers the possibility that the research team received incomplete narratives of the outbreak, or if the victims just reacted differently to the infection. The first section takes a look at Dr. Abramova's autopsy notes, which provide bits of information about who the victims were. It also presents an account of additional interviews with the families of Maria Moseykina, Mukhametalin Mukhametshin, Ivan Vershinin, Mikhail Burmistrov, Natalya Lyakhova, Aleksandra Volkova, and Lazar Korsayev. The chapter observes a feeling of gnawing anxiety in these interviews, which is a common effect of epidemics, revealing that no one recalls buying infected meat; that all of the victims worked, including the pensioners; and that they all lived by the clock.
Keywords: incomplete narratives, infection, autopsy notes, gnawing anxiety, infected meat
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Principal Participants
- 1 Anthrax
- 2 Moscow
- 3 Moscow
- 4 In the Urals
- 5 Autopsy Visions
- 6 The Community Of the Dead
- 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
- 18 Biological Weapons and Political Outbreaks
- 19 Manifestation
- 20 Mirage
- 21 Chkalovskiy
- 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”
- Appendix A List of 1979 Sverdlovsk Anthrax Fatalities
- Appendix B Summary of Case Data for Known Victims, Including Survivors, of the Sverdlovsk Anthrax Outbreak of 1979
- References
- Index
