Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.
Andrew Bickford is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University, author of Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany, and coauthor of The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, or Notes on Demilitarizing American Society.
Inhaltsangabe
Terms and Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: Supersoldier Bob Writes Home xvii Introduction: Chemical Heroes 1 Part I. Thematic Framings 1. "Innovation at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination 37 2. The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier 56 3. Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier 75 Part II. Early Imaginaries of the US Supersolder 4. "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurearmy 103 5. "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier 111 Part III. Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier 6. "The Force Is With You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior 147 7. Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling 180 8. "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield 216 9. "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy 239 10. Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes 245 Works Cited 259 Index 285
Terms and Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: Supersoldier Bob Writes Home xvii Introduction: Chemical Heroes 1 Part I. Thematic Framings 1. "Innovation at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination 37 2. The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier 56 3. Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier 75 Part II. Early Imaginaries of the US Supersolder 4. "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurearmy 103 5. "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier 111 Part III. Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier 6. "The Force Is With You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior 147 7. Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling 180 8. "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield 216 9. "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy 239 10. Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes 245 Works Cited 259 Index 285
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