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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Main Author: Bickford, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2020]
©2020
Series:Global Insecurities
Subjects:
Biological warfare > Research > United States.
Military art and science > Technological innovations.
Pharmaceutical industry > Military aspects.
Soldiers > Performance > United States.
Soldiers > Protection > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
farmaceutický priemysel
elektronické dokumenty
ISBN:9781478010302
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Terms and Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue Supersoldier Bob Writes Home
  • Introduction Chemical Heroes
  • Part I Thematic Framings
  • One "Innovate at the Speed of Change" War, Anticipation, Imagination
  • Two The Superman Solution The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier
  • Three Government (T)Issue Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier
  • Part II Early Imaginaries of the US Supersoldier
  • Four "Science Will Modernize Him" The Soldier of the Futurarmy
  • Five "A Biological Armor for the Soldier" Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier
  • Part III Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier
  • Six "The Force Is with You" An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior
  • Seven Molecular Militarization War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling
  • Eight "Kill-Proofing the Soldier" Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield
  • Nine "Catastrophic Success" Back to the Futurarmy
  • Ten Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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