Bioinsecurities : disease interventions, empire, and the government of species /

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In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called the government of species. The book explores...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ahuja, Neel, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Colección:ANIMA (Duke University Press)
Temas:
Imperialism > Health aspects.
Medical anthropology.
Biosecurity.
International relations.
Biopolitics.
Diseases in literature.
Health in literature.
Hazardous substances > Risk assessment.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Biosécurité.
Relations internationales.
Biopolitique.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Santé dans la littérature.
international relations.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Hazardous substances > Risk assessment
Biopolitics
Biosecurity
Diseases in literature
Health in literature
Imperialism > Health aspects
International relations
Medical anthropology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dread life: disease interventions and the intimacies of Empire
  • "An atmosphere of leprosy": Hansen's disease, the dependent body, and the transoceanic politics of Hawaiian annexation
  • Medicalized states of war: venereal disease and the risks of occupation in wartime Panamá
  • Domesticating immunity: the polio scare, Cold War mobility, and the vivisected primate
  • Staging smallpox: reanimating variola in the Iraq War
  • Refugee medicine, HIV, and a "humanitarian camp" at Guantánamo
  • Species war and the planetary horizon of security.

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