Ahuja Bioinsecurities

Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7467-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahuja, Neel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Neel Ahuja is Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Geography at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.