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Author Tu, Thuy Linh N., author.

Title Experiments in skin : race and beauty in the shadows of Vietnam / Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations
Contents Mysteries of the Visible -- Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation -- The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange -- An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security -- A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta -- Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable
Summary "Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Albert Klingman
military dermatology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 28, 2012)
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Chemical warfare -- Health aspects
Chemical warfare -- Health aspects -- Vietnam
Skin -- Diseases -- Vietnam
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care
Medicine, Preventive -- Vietnam
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
Chemical warfare -- Health aspects
Medical care
Medicine, Preventive
Skin -- Diseases
Vietnam
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020029554
ISBN 9781478013136
1478013133