Bioinsecurities - Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

Informationen zum Autor Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  Klappentext Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.¿ Zusammenfassung In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans! animals! bacteria! and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Empire in Life  vii Acknowledgments  xvii Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of Empire  1 1. "An Atmosphere of Leprosy": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation  29 2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation in Wartime Panamá  71 3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the Vivisected Primate  101 4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War  133 5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a "Humanitarian Camp" at Guantánamo  169 Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security  195 Notes   207 Bibliography  231 Index  249

Product details

• Authors: Neel Ahuja
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780822360483
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6048-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Anima; ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise; ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise; Anima: Critical Race Studies O
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies