Jennifer Terry

Attachments to War

Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369684
• ISBN-10: 0822369680
• Artikelnr.: 47617120

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Terry is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Irvine, the author of An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society, and coeditor of Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life and Deviant Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Difference in Science and Popular Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

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