Bickford Andrew Bickford

Chemical Heroes (eBook, PDF)

Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military

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Produktbeschreibung

In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "e;supersoldiers"e; capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend the health and lethal power of soldiers from the Cold War era into the twenty-first century, from early adoptions of mandatory immunizations to bio-protective gear, to the development and spread of new performance enhancing drugs during the global War on Terrorism. In his examination of government efforts to alter soldiers' bodies through new technologies, Bickford invites us to contemplate what constitutes heroism when armor becomes built in, wired in, and even edited into the molecular being of an American soldier. Lurking in the background and dark recesses of all US military enhancement research, Bickford demonstrates, is the desire to preserve US military and imperial power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478010302
• Artikelnr.: 66282532

Autorenporträt

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