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050	0	0	_aU42.5 _b.B535 2020
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100	1		_aBickford, Andrew, _d1966-
245	1	0	_aChemical heroes : _bpharmacological supersoldiers in the US Military / _cAndrew Bickford.
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2020.
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_axx, 296 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
490	1		_aGlobal insecurities.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSupersoldier 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.
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xMedical care.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bArmy _xSafety measures.
650		0	_aBiological warfare _xResearch _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMilitary art and science _xTechnological innovations.
650		0	_aPharmaceutical industry _xMilitary aspects.
650		0	_aSoldiers _xPerformance _zUnited States.
650		0	_aSoldiers _xProtection _zUnited States.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBickford, Andrew, 1966- _tChemical heroes _dDurham : Duke University Press, 2020. _z9781478010302 _w(DLC) 2020018850.
830		0	_aGlobal insecurities.
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