MHS 3000: WAR, THE US MILITARY, AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
The intersection of war, the military, and pandemic reveals the nature of the broader politics, structure, and embodiment of health in the contemporary world.
The military and problems of war represent many things when compared to civilian populations and peacetime worlds: a kind of regulated, enclosed laboratory; a space of exception or extreme; a population unique both in how it is cared for and how in how it is vulnerable; a tool or infrastructure for implementing public health domestically and controlling perceived health threats internationally or globally; and a space of fantasy and public imagination. At the same time, war and the military share many features with civilian life, especially in the context of pandemic: the reproduction of existing inequalities and the production of new ones; stratified and unequal exposure to violence and harm.
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MILITARY HEALTH
The lasting effects of war have adverse physical and mental health consequences on military personnel, exacerbated by COVID-19.
Berkeley Kendrick
Joseph Sexton
Alice Wu
Ahalya Ramesh
WAR RHETORIC
War rhetoric in American public and security policy functions in systematic and purposeful ways, shaping day-to-day, pandemic life.
Marisa Kim
Annesa Dey
Georgia Brown
Naomi Layton
