Neel Ahuja

Bioinsecurities

Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization.

Produktdetails

• ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360636
• ISBN-10: 0822360632
• Artikelnr.: 43674404

Autorenporträt

Neel Ahuja

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Empire in Life  vii
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of
Empire  1
1. "An Atmosphere of Leprosy": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and
the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation  29
2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation
in Wartime Panamá  71
3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the
Vivisected Primate  101
4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War  133
5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a "Humanitarian Camp" at Guantánamo  169
Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security  195
Notes   207
Bibliography  231
Index  249