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200 1. $a Toxic exposures $b Texte imprimé $e mustard gas and the health consequences of World War II in the United States $f Susan L. Smith
210 .. $a New Brunswick (N.J.) $c Rutgers university press $d cop. 2017
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XIII-187 p.) $d 24 cm
225 |. $a Critical issues in health and medicine
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327 1. $a 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.
330 .. $a "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" ; "Toxic Exposures: Mustard Gas and the Health Consequences
of World War II in the United States investigates the human and environmental costs
of war. One hundred years ago, mustard gas entered our world as a terrifying weapon
of World War I. As the Second World War began, nations prepared for another chemical
war. Scientists, physician researchers, and military officials turned to soldiers
as human subjects in chemical weapons research. They conducted race-based mustard
gas experiments on four racialized groups: African Americans, Japanese Americans,
Puerto Ricans, and white Americans. Toxic Exposures demonstrates the failure to protect
human rights in the effort to advance medical knowledge and promote national security.
This book situates the American mustard gas story within a web of linked and parallel
activities in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Allied scientists conducted
mustard gas experiments on more than 2500 Canadians, 2500 Australians, 7000 Britons,
and 60,000 Americans. The health consequences were not just immediate but also long
term, not just for soldiers but also civilians, and not just on faraway battlefields
but also at home. Toxic Exposures uses an historical approach to explore the far-reaching
consequences of medical research on mustard gas during the Second World War. It draws
on a range of evidence from government records, military reports, scientists' papers,
and veterans' testimony. It demonstrates that the science of war affected soldiers'
health, race-based medical science, ocean pollution, and cancer treatment. World War
II, that much-studied war, left a toxic legacy that is still with us more than seventy
years later. "
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