Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

Author:   Jennifer Terry
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822369684


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jennifer Terry
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780822369684


ISBN 10:   0822369680
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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With exceptionally crisp writing and sparkling erudition, Jennifer Terry paints a complex portrait of the nitty-gritty of American militarism, biomedicine, and bio-inequality. By showing how attachment to salvation underwrites the continued expendability of life, she makes an important intervention that will be felt in American studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and beyond. This book soars. -- Michelle Murphy, author of * The Economization of Life * This brilliant book is a thoughtful and profoundly original study of how war becomes an object of attachment and support in the United States. Jennifer Terry's discussion of wounding, injury, trauma, and prosthetics is one of the most fascinating, moving, and intensely generative studies I have read about how war is normalized, made everyday, and embedded in practices and beliefs and affect(ion)s of ordinary folks. -- Laleh Khalili, author of * Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies *


This brilliant book is a thoughtful and profoundly original study of how war becomes an object of attachment and support in the United States. Jennifer Terry's discussion of wounding, injury, trauma, and prosthetics is one of the most fascinating, moving, and intensely generative studies I have read about how war is normalized, made everyday, embedded in practices and beliefs and affect(ion)s of ordinary folks. -- Laleh Khalili, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies With exceptionally crisp writing and sparkling erudition, Jennifer Terry paints a complex portrait of the nitty gritty of American militarism, biomedicine, and bio-inequality. By showing how attachment to salvation underwrites the continued expendability of life, she makes an important intervention that will be felt in American studies, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and beyond. This book soars. -- Michelle Murphy, author of The Economization of Life


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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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