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.
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.
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.
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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
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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