| Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America Contributor(s): Terry, Jennifer (Author) |
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ISBN: 082236980X ISBN-13: 9780822369806 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | People With Disabilities - Medical | Prosthesis - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 355.009 |
| LCCN: 2017013529 |
| Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.79 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |