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Chemical heroes : pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military / Andrew Bickford

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  • Texte
  • Image fixe
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Chemical heroes : pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military / Andrew Bickford
A pour autre édition sur un support différent
  • Chemical heroes pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military Andrew Bickford Durham [C.] Duke University Press 2020 9781478010302 (e-book) 9781478010302 9781478090397
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Publication
  • Durham [C.] London : Duke University Press, 2020
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XX-296 pages) : illustrations, couverture illustrée en couleurs ; 23 cm
Collection
  • Global insecurities
ISBN
  • 978-1-4780-0972-6
  • 1-4780-0972-1
  • 978-1-4780-1135-4
  • 1-4780-1135-1
EAN
  • 9781478011354 broché
Appartient à la collection
  • Global insecurities Catherine Besteman Daniel M. Goldstein Durham, N.C. Duke University Press 2016
Autre variante du titre
  • [Pharmacological supersoldiers in the US military.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.345
Note sur disponibilité
  • La ressource est également disponible en version numérique
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie pages [259]-284. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • La 4e de couverture indique : "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 the health and lethal power of soldiers from the Cold War era into the twenty-first century, from early adaptations of mandatory immunizations, to bio-protective gear, to the development and spread of new performance enhancing drugs during the global War on Terror. In his examination of the government efforts to alter soldiers' bodies through new technologies, Bickford invites us to contemplate what constitutes heroism when armor becomes built in, wired in, even edited into the molecular beings of an American soldier. Lurking in the background and dark recesses of all US military enhancement research, Bickford demonstrates, is the desire to preserve US military and imperial power."
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