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Veterans and Agent Orange : health effects of herbicides used in Vietnam

Title
Veterans and Agent Orange : health effects of herbicides used in Vietnam / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.
Author
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.

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Description
xviii, 812 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1961-1975
  • Agent Orange > Health aspects
  • Agent Orange > Toxicology
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > Health risk assessment > United States
  • Veterans
  • Herbicides > adverse effects
  • Dioxins > adverse effects
  • Environmental Exposure
  • Veterans
  • Warfare
  • veterans
  • Agent Orange > Health aspects
  • Agent Orange > Toxicology
  • Veterans > Health risk assessment
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
History of the controversy over the use of herbicides -- U.S. military and the herbicide program in vietnam -- Toxicology -- Methodologic considerations in evaluating the evidence -- Exposure assessment -- Epidemiologic studies -- Cancer -- Reproductive effects -- Neurobehavioral effects -- Other health effects -- Research recommendations -- Information gathering: literature searches -- Information gathering: presentations to the committee and outside meetings -- Methodologic observations on the Ranch Hand Study.
ISBN
  • 0309048877
  • 9780309048873
LCCN
93027237
OCLC
  • ocm28530236
  • 28530236
  • SCSB-2019848
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library