Attachments to war
Subtitle: biomedical logics and violence in twenty-first-century America
By: Jennifer Terry
Series: Next wave : new directions in women's studies; Next wave
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780822369684; 9780822369806; 9780822372806
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Prosthesis; Medical microbiology; Regenerative medicine; Military History; History; Medical aspects; War
Description: "In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014. Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. military rationalizes violence and military occupation as necessary conditions for advancing medical knowledge and saving lives. Terry examines the treatment of war-generated polytrauma, postinjury bionic prosthetics design and the development of defenses against infectious pathogens, showing how the interdependence between war and biomedicine is interwoven with neoliberal ideals of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. She also outlines the ways in which military-sponsored biomedicine relies on racialized logics that devalue the lives of Afghan and Iraqi citizens and U.S. veterans of color. Uncovering the mechanisms that attach all Americans to war and highlighting their embeddedness and institutionalization in everyday life via the government, media, biotechnology, finance, and higher education, Terry helps lay the foundation for a more meaningful opposition to war."--book cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The biomedicine-war nexus; title: Promises of polytrauma : on regenerative medicine; title: We can enhance you : on bionic prosthetics; title: Pathogenic threats : on pharmaceutical war profiteering.