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Chemical Heroes : Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military /

"In Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend...

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Autor principal: Bickford, Andrew, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Supersoldier Bob Writes Home -- Chemical Heroes -- Thematic Framings -- "Innovate at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination -- The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier -- Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the -- Biology of the Soldier -- Early Imaginaries of the US Supersoldier -- "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurarmy -- "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring -- Soldier -- Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier -- "The Force Is with You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior -- Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling -- "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the -- World as Battlefield -- "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy -- Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes 
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