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)