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