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 the h...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Terms and Abbreviations -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Prologue Supersoldier Bob Writes Home -- |t Introduction Chemical Heroes -- |t Part I Thematic Framings -- |t One "Innovate at the Speed of Change" War, Anticipation, Imagination -- |t Two The Superman Solution The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier -- |t Three Government (T)Issue Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier -- |t Part II Early Imaginaries of the US Supersoldier -- |t Four "Science Will Modernize Him" The Soldier of the Futurarmy -- |t Five "A Biological Armor for the Soldier" Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier -- |t Part III Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier -- |t Six "The Force Is with You" An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior -- |t Seven Molecular Militarization War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling -- |t Eight "Kill-Proofing the Soldier" Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield -- |t Nine "Catastrophic Success" Back to the Futurarmy -- |t Ten Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes -- |t Works Cited -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a 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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