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Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030904832X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 448
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Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments. In response, the Veterans Administration asked the Institute of Medicine to study the issue. Based on a literature review and personal testimony from more than 250 affected veterans, this new volume discusses in detail the development and chemistry of mustard agents and Lewisite followed by interesting and informative discussions about these substances and their possible connection to a range of health problems, from cancer to reproductive disorders. The volume also offers an often chilling historical examination of the use of volunteers in chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. militaryâ€"what the then-young soldiers were told prior to the experiments, how they were "encouraged" to remain in the program, and how they were treated afterward. This comprehensive and controversial book will be of importance to policymakers and legislators, military and civilian planners, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, military historians, and researchers.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 030904832X Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 448
Book Description
Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments. In response, the Veterans Administration asked the Institute of Medicine to study the issue. Based on a literature review and personal testimony from more than 250 affected veterans, this new volume discusses in detail the development and chemistry of mustard agents and Lewisite followed by interesting and informative discussions about these substances and their possible connection to a range of health problems, from cancer to reproductive disorders. The volume also offers an often chilling historical examination of the use of volunteers in chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. militaryâ€"what the then-young soldiers were told prior to the experiments, how they were "encouraged" to remain in the program, and how they were treated afterward. This comprehensive and controversial book will be of importance to policymakers and legislators, military and civilian planners, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, military historians, and researchers.
Author: Aldred Scott Warthin Publisher: Palala Press ISBN: 9781340968618 Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
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Author: Alan J. Feister Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9780849342578 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 390
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This book provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the acute toxic effects of sulfur mustard (mustard gas); the injuries that this compound produces in skin, eye, airway, and other tissues; and possibilities for the prevention of these injuries through pharmacological intervention. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach and is intended for all biomedical researchers interested in combatting the effects of chemical weapons, as well as those who have a general interest in the basic processes underlying cell death and tissue injury. Drawing on an extensive base of scientific literature, including many government research reports that are difficult or impossible for most researchers to obtain, the book covers the pathological features of acute mustard injury, sulfur mustard's toxicodynamics, its chemistry, its molecular and cellular mechanisms of injury, the inflammatory mechanisms involved in injury, prophylactic and therapeutic approaches to prevention of injury, and experimental models of mustard injury.
Author: Susan L. Smith Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 0813586119 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
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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.
Author: Aldred Scott Warthin Publisher: ISBN: 9781331946069 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 268
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Excerpt from The Medical Aspects of Mustard Gas Poisoning The investigations on Dichlorethylsulphide (Mustard Gas) Poisoning recorded in this volume were begun as an independent war research problem in the Pathological Laboratory of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan in 1917. The Laboratory later, through Dr. Warthin, became associated with the Medical Advisory Board of the Chemical Warfare Service and abstracts and preliminary reports of these investigations are included in the Reports of that Department of the Service. Six articles, forming the nucleus of the investigation, were published in the Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, as follows: Pathology of the Skin Lesions, May, 1918; Pathology of the Ocular Lesions, October, 1918; The Treatment of Dichlorethylsulphide Injuries, ibid; The Clinical Pathology of Dichlorethylsulphide Poisoning, November, 1918; Lesions of the Respiratory and Gastrointestinal Tracts, February, 1919; The General Pathology of Mustard Gas (Dichlorethylsulphide) Poisoning, ibid. These articles have now been gathered together, corrected and expanded to form the chief part of the present volume. To this material we have added an introductory chapter on the Medical Aspects of Gassing in Warfare and a complete Bibliography of the Literature on Gassing in Warfare. We also have added a number of new and important illustrations. The entire research has been carried through in a period of eighteen months, in a most intensive manner, involving an immense amount of labor. Its success, was made possible only through the enthusiastic cooperation of the entire Laboratory Staff. Through Col. W. J. Lyster and Major H. C. Bradley of the Chemical Warfare Service we were given the opportunity of studying human material in one of the industrial plants concerned in the manufacture of mustard gas; and through the cooperation of the Chemical Warfare Service we were enabled to place at this plant a member of the Laboratory Staff, Dr. George R. Herrmann, thus making possible a collection of laboratory data in human cases, which is published as Chapter VI of this volume. We are also indebted to Captain L. L. Roos for the opportunity of studying the cases clinically and of performing an autopsy upon one of the fatal cases. To Major Moses Gomberg, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Michigan we owe first of all our thanks, as he, in the beginning, furnished us with a quantity of the purest mustard gas we were able to obtain from any source. With the dichlorethylsulphide made by him we have been able to standardize our entire series of investigations; at the same time we have compared its action with that of samples less pure, obtained from the Chemical Warfare Service and elsewhere. To Dr. Gomberg we are also indebted for a quantity of pure dihydroxyethylsulphide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Institute of Medicine
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Author: Aldred Scott Warthin
Author: Aldred Scott Warthin
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Author: Alan J. Feister
Author: Susan L. Smith
Author: Aldred Scott Warthin
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