Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Research and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Proceedings of the 1962 Army Science Conference, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 20-22 June 1962
Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office, Chief of Research and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Proceedings of the 1962 Army Science Conference, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., 20-22 June 1962
Author: Human Factors Engineering Bibliographic Series
Author: Keywords Index to U.S. Government Technical Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Keywords Index to U.S. Government Technical Reports (permuted Title Index).
Author: United States. Department of Commerce. Office of Technical ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Chemical Heroes
Author: Andrew BickfordPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478010304
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
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 adoptions of mandatory immunizations to bio-protective gear, to the development and spread of new performance enhancing drugs during the global War on Terrorism. In his examination of government efforts to alter soldiers' bodies through new technologies, Bickford invites us to contemplate what constitutes heroism when armor becomes built in, wired in, and even edited into the molecular being 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.
Symposia
Author: Defense Documentation Center (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congresses and conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
U.S. Government Research Reports
Author: Summary of the Tenth Refractory Composites Working Group Meeting
Author: L. N. HjelmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composite materials
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Experiments in Skin
Author: Thuy Linh Nguyen TuPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478013133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In Experiments in Skin Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the ongoing influence of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty. Framing skin as the site around which these ideas have been formed, Tu foregrounds the histories of militarism in the production of US biomedical knowledge and commercial cosmetics. She uncovers the efforts of wartime scientists in the US Military Dermatology Research Program to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin. These dermatologists sought relief for white soldiers while denying that African American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians were also vulnerable to harm. Their experiments led to the development of pharmaceutical cosmetics, now used by women in Ho Chi Minh City to tend to their skin, and to grapple with the damage caused by the war's lingering toxicity. In showing how the US military laid the foundations for contemporary Vietnamese consumption of cosmetics and practices of beauty, Tu shows how the intersecting histories of militarism, biomedicine, race, and aesthetics become materially and metaphorically visible on skin.