LEADER 04398nam 22006975 450 001 9910154715703321 005 20210616191936.0 010 $a0-8135-8612-7 010 $a0-8135-8611-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813586120 035 $a(CKB)4340000000022387 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4760995 035 $a(OCoLC)965738181 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57653 035 $a(DE-B1597)526263 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813586120 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000022387 100 $a20190904d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aToxic Exposures $eMustard Gas and the Health Consequences of World War II in the United States /$fSusan L. Smith 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (209 pages) 225 0 $aCritical Issues in Health and Medicine 311 $a0-8135-8609-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: Health and War Beyond the Battlefield --$tPart I. Preparation for Chemical Warfare --$tChapter 1. Wounding Men to Learn: Soldiers as Human Subjects --$tChapter 2. Race Studies and the Science of War --$tPart II. Toxic Legacies of War --$tChapter 3. Mustard Gas in the Sea Around Us --$tChapter 4. A Wartime Story: Mustard Agents and Cancer Chemotherapy --$tConclusion: Veterans Making History --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aMustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Few realize, however, that mustard gas had a resurgence during the Second World War, when its uses and effects were widespread and insidious. Toxic Exposures tells the shocking story of how the United States and its allies intentionally subjected thousands of their own servicemen to poison gas as part of their preparation for chemical warfare. In addition, it reveals the racialized dimension of these mustard gas experiments, as scientists tested whether the effects of toxic exposure might vary between Asian, Hispanic, black, and white Americans. Drawing from once-classified American and Canadian government records, military reports, scientists' papers, and veterans' testimony, historian Susan L. Smith explores not only the human cost of this research, but also the environmental degradation caused by ocean dumping of unwanted mustard gas. As she assesses the poisonous legacy of these chemical warfare experiments, Smith also considers their surprising impact on the origins of chemotherapy as cancer treatment and the development of veterans' rights movements. Toxic Exposures thus traces the scars left when the interests of national security and scientific curiosity battled with medical ethics and human rights. 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / Military / World War II$2bisacsh 606 $aSCIENCE / History$2bisacsh 606 $aMEDICAL / History$2bisacsh 606 $aHISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare$2bisacsh 606 $aGases, Asphyxiating and poisonous 606 $aChemical weapons$zUnited States$xTesting 606 $aMustard gas$xToxicology 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights. 615 7$aHISTORY / Military / World War II. 615 7$aSCIENCE / History. 615 7$aMEDICAL / History. 615 7$aHISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare. 615 0$aGases, Asphyxiating and poisonous. 615 0$aChemical weapons$xTesting. 615 0$aMustard gas$xToxicology. 676 $a615.9/1 686 $aHIS027010$aMED039000$aSCI034000$aHIS027100$aPOL035010$aHIS036060$2bisacsh 700 $aSmith$b Susan Lynn$f1960-$01191672 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154715703321 996 $aToxic Exposures$92894565 997 $aUNINA