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Author Sills, Peter

Title Toxic war : the story of Agent Orange / Peter Sills
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: One Statistic -- 1. Techniques and Gadgets -- 2. Trail Dust -- 3. The Single Solution -- 4. "We Didn't Have Any Information That It Was Safe" -- 5. The Chemical Corps and Dioxin, Part 1 -- 6. Ranch Hand -- 7. Good Citizens -- 8. The Chemical Corps and Dioxin, Part 2 -- 9. The Rise and Fall of Ranch Hand -- 10. Medicine from the Sky -- 11. "There Is No Immediate Cause for Alarm" -- 12. Activist Science -- 13. Bionetics -- 14. The End of Trail Dust -- 15. Guinea Pigs -- 16. Two and a Half Million Plaintiffs -- 17. Politics and Epidemiology -- 18. The Management Committee -- 19. "People Lost Track of What Was True": The Agent Orange Research, Part 1 -- 20. Validation: The Agent Orange Research, Part 2 -- 21. The Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Agent Orange Research, Part 3 -- 22. The Ongoing Cost of War -- Epilogue: One Story -- Glossary -- Appendix A: The Institute of Medicine's Update of Findings Regarding Associations between Exposures to Herbicides and Specific Health Outcomes -- Appendix B: Agent Orange-Related Diseases and Birth Defects Compensable by the Department of Veterans Affairs -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary ""Goes behind the scenes of political power and industry into the debate about the use of Agent Orange and its potential side effects, as veterans seek justice in the court of law and public opinion. Unprecedented in its access to legal, medical, and government documentation, and the testimonies of veterans"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United States. Veterans Administration
SUBJECT United States Veterans Administration
United States. Veterans Administration fast
Subject Agent Orange -- Health aspects
Agent Orange -- War use
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Chemical warfare.
Agent Orange -- Toxicology
Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Research -- United States
Veterans -- Diseases -- Research -- United States
Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971.
Veterans -- Diseases -- United States
Chemical warfare.
Chemical Warfare
Defoliants, Chemical -- toxicity
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins -- toxicity
United States Government Agencies
Veterans Health
Vietnam Conflict
HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
Agent Orange -- Health aspects
Agent Orange -- Toxicology
Agent Orange -- War use
Chemical warfare
Veterans -- Diseases
Veterans -- Diseases -- Research
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826519641
0826519644
1306410460
9781306410465