Attachments to War - Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war, in which new forms of wounding necessitate the continual development of treatment and prosthetic technologies while the military justifies violence and military occupation as necessary conditions for advancing medical knowledge.

Sommario

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. The Biomedicine-War Nexus  27
2. Promises of Polytrauma: On Regenerative Medicine  53
3. We Can Enhance You: On Bionic Prosthetics  89
4. Pathogenic Threats: On Pharmaceutical War Profiteering  140
Epilogue  180
Notes  189
Bibliography  217
Index  239

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Jennifer Terry

Riassunto

Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war, in which new forms of wounding necessitate the continual development of treatment and prosthetic technologies while the military justifies violence and military occupation as necessary conditions for advancing medical knowledge.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jennifer Terry
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780822369684
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6968-4
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche non cliniche; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche