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Chemical heroes : pharmacological supersoldiers in the US Military / Andrew Bickford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bickford, Andrew, 1966- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Global insecurities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army--Safety measures.
- United States.
- United States. Army.
- Industrial safety.
- United States. Army--Medical care.
- Military art and science--Technological innovations.
- Military art and science.
- Soldiers--Protection--United States.
- Soldiers.
- Soldiers--Performance--United States.
- Biological warfare--Research--United States.
- Biological warfare.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Military aspects.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Biological warfare--Research.
- Performance.
- Soldiers--Protection.
- Medical care.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 296 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- data file
- Summary:
- "Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military's attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological "supersoldiers" capable of becoming ever more lethal while withstanding various forms of extreme trauma."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Supersoldier Bob Writes Home
- Chemical Heroes
- Thematic Framings
- "Innovate at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination
- The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier
- Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the
- Biology of the Soldier
- Early Imaginaries of the US Supersoldier
- "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurarmy
- "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring
- Soldier
- Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier
- "The Force Is with You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior
- Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling
- "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the
- World as Battlefield
- "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy
- Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bickford, Andrew, 1966- Chemical heroes.
- ISBN:
- 9781478010302
- 1478010304
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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