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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Smith, Susan L., (Susan Lea), 1953- author.     Subjects     Mustard gas -- Toxicology.     Chemical weapons -- United States -- Testing.     Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Smith, Susan L., (Susan Lea), 1953- author.       by title:      Toxic exposures : mu...         MARC Display

Toxic exposures : mustard gas and the health consequences of World War II in the United States / Susan L. Smith. by Smith, Susan L., (Susan Lea), 1953- author. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, c2017. Subjects Mustard gas -- Toxicology.   Chemical weapons -- United States -- Testing.   Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous. ISBN:  9780813586090 (hardcover) : 0813586097 (hardcover) Series:  Critical issues in health and medicine. Description:  xiii, 187 pages ; 24 cm. Contents:  Introduction: health and war beyond the battlefield -- Part I: Preparation for chemical warfare -- Wounding men to kearn: soldiers as human subjects -- Race studies and the science of war -- Part II: Toxic legacies of war -- Mustard gas in the sea around us -- A wartime story: mustard agents and cancer chemotherapy -- Conclusion: veterans making history. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 615.91 Sm Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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