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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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2017] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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