Terry, Jennifer

Attachments to War

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ISBN 13:
9780822369806
author:
Terry, Jennifer
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Duke University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2017
Pages:
264
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 centimetres
Genre:
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Anthropology,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£24.83

Description

Jennifer Terry examines how biomedical logics entwine American society in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, she identifies the interdependence between biomedicine and warfare.

The development of new treatment technologies, prosthetic designs, and defenses against infectious pathogens is linked to the U.S. military's rationalization of violence as a means to advance medical knowledge and save lives. Terry also explores how racialized logics are embedded in military-sponsored biomedicine, devaluing the lives of Afghan and Iraqi citizens and U.S. veterans of color.

This book helps lay the foundation for a more meaningful opposition to war by uncovering the mechanisms that attach all Americans to conflict and highlighting their embeddedness in everyday life via government, media, biotechnology, finance, and higher education.

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