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Making Exposure In/Visible: Epidemiology, Legitimacy, and Authority after Bhopal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2017

Bridget Hanna
Bridget Hanna*
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Bridget Hanna (b.hanna@neu.edu) is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University and Visiting Scholar at the Harvard University Asia Center.
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Asia as a region bears the brunt of both natural and industrial disasters, and when these catastrophes occur, the consequences are disproportionately deadly. Between 1970 and 2011, 74.6 percent of the world's disaster-related fatalities occurred in the Asia-Pacific region (ESCAP and UNISDR 2012, 5). And the toll may be even worse than these numbers indicate; it is easier to assess gross mortality in the acute period of a disaster than to assess the scope of the long-term health effects. This is especially true in developing areas, where there may be preexisting risks and hazards, such as extreme poverty or endemic infectious disease.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 76 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 409 - 421
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017 

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