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Toxic War : The Story of Agent Orange /
""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 testi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Sills, Peter. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Toxic War : |b The Story of Agent Orange / |c Peter Sills. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a ""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"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 610 | 1 | 2 | |a United States |b Veterans Administration |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Veterans Administration. |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre chimique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Agent Orange |x Toxicologie. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Agent Orange |x Utilisation militaire. | |
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