Author Archives: Sarah D. Phillips

Announcements

Therapeutic Encounters: Emerging research in health and medicine in Eastern Europe

By Sarah D. Phillips

Indiana University is soliciting proposals from junior scholars for participation in an interdisciplinary workshop, “Therapeutic Encounters: Emerging research in health and medicine in Eastern Europe,” to be held April 13-14, 2012 at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. 

Eligibility: Graduate students and recent PhDs from any field who are engaged in health- and medicine-related research in Eastern Europe. We particularly invite …

Features

Chernobyl Forever

By Sarah D. Phillips

This post was contributed by Sarah D. Phillips (Indiana University, Bloomington)

For a time, it seemed as if the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster might come and go relatively unnoticed and unremarked, at least by those persons with no direct experience of it. The nuclear accident at Chernobyl (Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) came to be seen as a …