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Pharmaceutical Creep: U.S. Military Power and the Global and Transnational Mobility of Psychopharmaceuticals
In 2006, the United States Department of Defense developed for the first time official criteria for the use of psychopharmaceuticals âin theaterââin the physical and tactical spaces of military operations including active combat. Based on fieldwork with Army soldiers and veterans, this article explores the transnational and global dimensions of military psychopharmaceutical use in the postâ9/11 wars. I consider the spatial, material, and symbolic dimensions of what I call âpharmaceutical creepââthe slow drift of psychopharmaceuticals from the civilian world into theater and into the military corporate body. While pharmaceutical creep is managed by the U.S. military as a problem of gatekeeping and of supply and provisioning, medications can appear as the solution to recruitment and performance problems once in theater. Drawing on soldiersâ accounts of medication use, I illuminate the possibilities, but also the frictions, that arise when routine psychopharmaceuticals are remade into technologies of global counterinsurgency
VINYL CARBENE. OBSERVATION AND REACTIONS AT
Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, Iowa State UniversityThe infrared and electron spin resonance spectra of vinyl carbine, generated by photolysis of diazopropene in an argon matrix, will be discussed. Evidence for the existence of a syn and an anti isomer will be presented. Reactions of vinyl carbene will be described. Several larger organic carbenes will be described to illustrate the possibilities of this technique in preparing and observing unstable organic compounds of theoretical interest