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Stabilizing Empire

Psychopharmacy in the US War on Terror

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-42863-8
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungstermin: 10.11.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. November 2026

In 2006, the United States Department of Defense for the first time authorized the use of FDA-approved psychiatric medications in the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. This policy change overturned a century of military psychiatry orthodoxy, which prioritized non-pathologizing, non-medication treatment for combat stress. Amid an ongoing global war, the US military embraced psychopharmacy as a radical and untested tool for keeping soldiers on the counterinsurgency battlefield and deploying them again and again, even with psychiatric diagnoses. Through powerful storytelling and original analysis, Stabilizing Empire uncovers a quiet revolution during the war on terror: the pharmaceuticalization of battlefield mental health care.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520428638
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-42863-8
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 10.11.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Gebunden, Cloth Over Boards
  • Seiten: 290
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Buildup2. Chronic3. Stability4. Supply5. Reaction6. EncapsulateEpilogue: Withdrawal
NotesBibliographyIndex