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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.

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.

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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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