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Bioinsecurities

Autor Neel Ahuja
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 apr 2016
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822360483
ISBN-10: 0822360489
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

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