Stabilizing Empire

Psychopharmacy in the US War on Terror

von Jocelyn Lim Chua

290 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte
• ISBN: 9780520428645
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: University of California Press