Bioinsecurities : disease interventions, empire, and the government of species / Neel Ahuja.
By: Ahuja, Neel [author.].
Series: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016Description: xix, 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780822360636 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822360632 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Imperialism -- Health aspects | Medical anthropology | Biosecurity | International relations | Biopolitics | Diseases in literature | Health in literatureGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R133 .A385 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000006679 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.
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.