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Attachments to War
Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
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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“Attachments to War provides a set of tools that will be valuable to students and established scholars alike for prizing apart and connecting together these attachments in new and vitally necessary ways.”
-- Kenneth MacLeish Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"Terry’s work is eye-opening to a powerful new perspective on the American way of war. Her scholarship is well researched and carefully supported. . . . A fascinating piece of scholarship concerning a tragically understudied subject."
-- James Sandy H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews
"Terry’s work serves as a critical reminder that biomedicine, 'as both an epistemological formation and an industry,' sutures war to care, laboring to convince the public that the knowledge produced through warfare justifies its violence. The crucial work of dismantling US empire, Terry reminds her reader, is to reject that 'labyrinth of excuses.'"
-- Jennifer Kelly Radical History Review
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction
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ONE The Biomedicine- War Nexus
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TWO Promises of Polytrauma
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THREE We Can Enhance You
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FOUR Pathogenic Threats
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Epilogue
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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October 19, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822372806
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296
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15 illustrations
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eBook ISBN:
9780822372806
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Professional and scholarly;
