Attachments to War
Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
1st Edition
Published on 19. October 2017
296 pages
978-0-8223-7280-6 (ISBN)
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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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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
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
