Bickford Chemical Heroes

Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1030-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

Reihe: Global Insecurities

Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bickford, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Terms and Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue: Supersoldier Bob Writes Home xvii
Introduction: Chemical Heroes 1
Part I. Thematic Framings
1. "Innovation at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination 37
2. The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier 56
3. Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier 75
Part II. Early Imaginaries of the US Supersolder
4. "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurearmy 103
5. "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier 111
Part III. Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier
6. "The Force Is With You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior 147
7. Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling 180
8. "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield 216
9. "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy 239
10. Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes 245
Works Cited 259
Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Bickford is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University, author of Fallen Elites: The Military Other in Post-Unification Germany, and coauthor of The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, or Notes on Demilitarizing American Society.