Blood cultures : medicine, media, and militarisms / Cathy Hannabach, independent scholar, USA.

  • Hannabach, Cathy
Date:
2015
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Blood Cultures traces the cultural history of blood as it enabled the twentieth-century American empire. Spilling blood, managing blood, banking blood, and even sucking blood defined the nation and its practices, from Alcatraz Island to Guantanamo Bay. Bringing together science studies, pop culture, and anti-racist feminist and queer politics, the book examines how blood saturated the twentieth-century cultural imaginary, slipped into laws and policies, flowed across screens, and seeped into our most intimate relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical description

viii, 153 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition

First edition.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-138) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Bleeding Identities: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Blood Drive Activism -- Cartographies of Blood and Violence -- Technologies of Blood: The Biopolitics of Asylum -- Between Blood and the Bomb: Atomic Cities, Nuclear Kinship, and Queer Vampires -- Conclusion: Sanguinary Futures.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    GY.T
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781137581587
  • 1137581581