Bioinsecurities : disease interventions, empire, and the government of species / Neel Ahuja.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

xix, 262 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Dread life: disease interventions and the intimacies of Empire -- "An atmosphere of leprosy": Hansen's disease, the dependent body, and the transoceanic politics of Hawaiian annexation -- Medicalized states of war: venereal disease and the risks of occupation in wartime Panamá -- Domesticating immunity: the polio scare, Cold War mobility, and the vivisected primate -- Staging smallpox: reanimating variola in the Iraq War -- Refugee medicine, HIV, and a "humanitarian camp" at Guantánamo -- Species war and the planetary horizon of security.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index.