Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America

by Jennifer Terry

Book Overview

In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the presence of a biomedicine-war nexus in which new forms of wounding provoke the continual development of complex treatment, rehabilitation, and prosthetic technologies. At the same time, the U.S. military rationalizes violence and military occupation as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082236980X
• ISBN13: 9780822369806
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"