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Heena Hussain

Heena Hussain is an MA Literature and American Studies graduate from the University of Manchester, UK. She is planning to complete a PhD, focusing on Hollywood Superhero films produced post 9/11, examining the development and changing portrayals of soldiers and terrorists and the shifting construction of Muslims within these narratives.

Book Review: Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military by Andrew Bickford

Supersoldiers are often found in comic books and cinemas, but anthropologist Andrew Bickford covers the real attempts to bring the hero off the page and into reality. Chemical Heroes follows the development of the US military’s efforts to biomedically enhance their soldiers in response to the prediction that the future of warfare is a pharmaceutical battlefield.