Living with Agent Orange : conversations in postwar Viet Nam /

Living with Agent Orange : conversations in postwar Viet Nam /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fox, Diane Niblack, author.
Imprint:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024]
Description:	xxvii, 181 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.
Subject:	Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Vietnam. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Health aspects -- Vietnam. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Chemical warfare -- Health aspects. War victims -- Vietnam. Chemical warfare -- Health aspects -- Vietnam. Agent Orange -- Health aspects Chemical warfare -- Health aspects War -- Health aspects War victims Vietnam
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13449653

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ISBN:	9781625347473 1625347472 9781625347480 1625347480 9781685750336
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"For over half a century, the Vietnamese people have endured the harmful legacies of Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide used by the American military as a type of chemical warfare. While scientists and politicians continue to debate how to best address its human and environmental consequences, the nearly three million Vietnamese whose lives have been shaped by its lingering effects have been largely left out of the conversation. To understand how Agent Orange has impacted the lives and livelihoods of everyday Vietnamese people, Diane Niblack Fox interviewed families and individuals living with its aftereffects across the northern, central, and southern regions of the country. In powerfully written prose, Fox captures the personal accounts of villagers, as they describe caring for loved ones with chronic illnesses and disabilities and their attempts to secure medical and financial assistance. Living with Agent Orange also chronicles the moving stories of rebuilt lives, of family and community support, and of the overriding power of the human spirit"--
Other form:	Online version: Fox, Diane Niblack. Living with Agent Orange Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024] 9781685750336

Table of Contents:

Prologue: "I am still here"-A Family in Thái Bình
Acknowledgments
Note on Methodology, Language, and Measures
Introduction Agent Orange as Chemical and Metaphor
Part 1. Stories from the North-Hà Nam Province and Phu Lý Town
Chapter 1. Phu Lý Two Times at War, Three Times Razed
Chapter 2. Kim Bang District
Chapter 3. Duy Tiên District
Part 2. Stories from the Center-Thua Thiên Hue Province
Chapter 4. Quang Tho No-Man's-Land (vành dai trang)
Part 3. Stories from the South-Dong Nai Province and Biên Hòa City
Chapter 5. Introduction to the Ðong Nai Red Cross
Chapter 6. Xuân Loc District "Twelve days and nights"
Chapter 7. Biên Hòa City
Conclusion Mrs. Hong's Story
Afterword Susan Hammond
Notes
Bibliography
Photo gallery follows page 112