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Stabilizing Empire: Psychopharmacy in the US War on Terror Jocelyn Lim Chua
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Stabilizing Empire: Psychopharmacy in the US War on Terror
Jocelyn Lim Chua
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.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | November 10, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520428638 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 286 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 604 g (Weight (estimated)) |
