Toxic Exposures : : Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States / / Susan L. Smith.
Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread and i...
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Smith, Susan L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Toxic Exposures : Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States / Susan L. Smith. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017] ©2019 1 online resource (200 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Issues in Health and Medicine Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Health and War Beyond the Battlefield -- Part I. Preparation for Chemical Warfare -- Chapter 1. Wounding Men to Learn: Soldiers as Human Subjects -- Chapter 2. Race Studies and the Science of War -- Part II. Toxic Legacies of War -- Chapter 3. Mustard Gas in the Sea Around Us -- Chapter 4. A Wartime Story: Mustard Agents and Cancer Chemotherapy -- Conclusion: Veterans Making History -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread and insidious. Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to poison gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. In addition, it reveals the racialized dimension of these mustard gas experiments, as scientists tested whether the effects of toxic exposure might vary between Asian, Hispanic, black, and white Americans. Drawing from once-classified American and Canadian government records, military reports, scientists' papers, and veterans' testimony, historian Susan L. Smith explores not only the human cost of this research, but also the environmental degradation caused by ocean dumping of unwanted mustard gas. As she assesses the poisonous legacy of these chemical warfare experiments, Smith also considers their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans' rights movements. Toxic Exposures thus traces the scars left when the interests of national security and scientific curiosity battled with medical ethics and human rights. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) Chemical weapons United States Testing. Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous. Mustard gas Toxicology. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110666090 print 9780813586090 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813586120 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813586120 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780813586120.jpg |
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