{"product_id":"bioinsecurities-9780822360636","title":"Bioinsecurities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]he histories Ahuja offers in \u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e can help us to move away from the default mode of racialized panic toward more critical discourses and practices of care in the context of epidemics that cross borders and harm unevenly.\" -- Martha Kenney * Feminist Formations *\u003cbr\u003e\"After decades of publications on biosecurity, Ahuja’s title—\u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e—promises something different. . . . Ahuja has five or six analytic balls in the air at once. It is the genre that encourages and allows this, and the scholarly juggling should be applauded. The book is not and should not be read as a history of medicine, and yet it will profitably be read by medical historians.\" -- Alison Bashford * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e“The book navigates wide-ranging cultural, scientific, and state archives with stunning clarity, all without compromising the complexity of its argument. As a result, \u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e carves out fresh possibilities for the medical humanities, as novels and short stories, films and photographs, memoirs and epistles appear side-by-side with government reports, immigration acts, and lab research to document tensions and struggles inhering the biopolitical relations of a modern U.S. security state.” -- James Fitz Gerald * symploke *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities \u003c\/i\u003eis an important book that speaks to the intertwined racial projects of military, imperial securitization, and disease control, which is particularly timely.” -- Claire Laurier Decoteau * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"Incisive vivisection of the interspecies politics of American empire and global biosecurity. . . . Ahuja’s work offers trenchant and timely political diagnoses that should attract a wide readership, particularly as it spans (and highlights the linkages between) the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. . . . With its comparative, multi-cited, and interdisciplinary analysis, \u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an important and timely contribution to our understanding of the interspecies dimension of US empire and its possible futures.\" -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e describes with vivid detail how empire operates on a scale that is at once global and microscopic, stretching from the Hawai’ian territo-ries to the Panama Canal Zone to US-occupied Iraq.\" -- Russ Castronovo * American Literature *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a theoretically ambitious project that draws on both biopolitics and posthumanism—two bodies of thought that have tended to sit somewhat uneasily together.... \u003ci\u003eBioinsecurities\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable contribution to understanding the nexus of imperial power, species, and the human.” -- Courtney Addison * New Genetics and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Empire in Life  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of Empire  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"An Atmosphere of Leprosy\": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation  29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation in Wartime Panamá  71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the Vivisected Primate  101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War  133\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a \"Humanitarian Camp\" at Guantánamo  169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security  195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  249","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406093394263,"sku":"9780822360636","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360636.jpg?v=1730494502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bioinsecurities-9780822360636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}