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In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and bacteria at the borders of U.S. influence, a phenomenon called the government of species. The book explores efforts to control the spread of Hansen's disease, venereal disease, polio, smallpox, and HIV through interventions linking the continental United States to Hawai'i, PanamÁ, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Congo, Iraq, and India in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ahuja argues that racial fears of contagion helped to produce public optimism concerning state uses of pharmaceuticals, medical experimentation, military intervention, and incarceration to regulate the immune capacities of the body. In the process, the security state made the biological structures of human and animal populations into sites of struggle in the politics of empire, unleashing new patient activisms and forms of resistance to medical and military authority across the increasingly global sphere of U.S. influence.
Contents
Preface: Empire in Life vii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of Empire 1
1. "An Atmosphere of Leprosy": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation 29
2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation in Wartime PanamÁ 71
3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the Vivisected Primate 101
4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War 133
5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a "Humanitarian Camp" at GuantÁnamo 169
Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security 195
Notes 207
Bibliography 231
Index 249
