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Stabilizing Empire - by Jocelyn Lim Chua (Hardcover)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: Jocelyn Lim Chua is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India.
  • 275 Pages
  • Social Science, Anthropology

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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.



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Jocelyn Lim Chua is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of In Pursuit of the Good Life: Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 275
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Anthropology
Publisher: University of California Press
Theme: Cultural & Social
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jocelyn Lim Chua
Language: English
Street Date: October 13, 2026
TCIN: 1010684307
UPC: 9780520428638
Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-5271
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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