Bio-Imperialism: Disease, Terror, and the Construction of National Fragility

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Synopsis
Bio-Imperialism focuses on an understudied dimension of the war on terror: the fight against bioterrorism. This component of the war enlisted the biosciences and public health fields to build up the U.S. biodefense industry and U.S. global disease control. The book argues that U.S. imperial ambitions drove these shifts in focus, aided by gendered and racialized discourses on terrorism, disease, and science. These narratives helped rationalize American research expansion into dangerous germs and bioweapons in the name of biodefense and bolstered the U.S. rationale for increased interference in the disease control decisions of Global South nations. Bio-Imperialism is a sobering look at how the war on terror impacted the world in ways that we are only just starting to grapple with.
Copyright:
2021

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
242 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781978815162
Related ISBNs:
9781978814790, 9781978814783
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Gwen Shuni D’Arcangelis
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Nonfiction, Science, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Grade Levels:
College Freshman
Reading Age:
18 and up
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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