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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahuja, Neel, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical anthropology.
International relations.
Imperialism > Health aspects.
Health in literature.
Diseases in literature.
Biosecurity.
Biopolitics.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
international relations.
Sante dans la litterature.
Maladies dans la litterature.
Biopolitique.
Relations internationales.
Biosecurite.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Hazardous substances > Risk assessment.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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