Toxic war : the story of Agent Orange /

Toxic war : the story of Agent Orange /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sills, Peter, author.
Imprint:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Description:	x, 285 pages ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Veterans Administration. United States. -- Veterans Administration. Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971) Vietnam War (1961-1975) Agent Orange -- Health aspects. Agent Orange -- War use. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Chemical warfare. Agent Orange -- Toxicology. Agent Orange -- Health aspects -- Research -- United States. Veterans -- Diseases -- Research -- United States. Operation Ranch Hand, 1962-1971. Veterans -- Diseases -- United States. Agent Orange -- Health aspects. Agent Orange -- Toxicology. Agent Orange -- War use. Chemical warfare. Veterans -- Diseases. Veterans -- Diseases -- Research. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9962076

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ISBN:	9780826519627 (hardback) 0826519628 (hardback) 9780826519641 (e-book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	""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"--

Table of 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.
Appendix B.
Notes
Bibliography
Index