@article{637889,
      recid = {637889},
      author = {Martini, Edwin A.,},
      title = {Agent Orange : history, science, and the politics of  uncertainty /},
      publisher = {University of Massachusetts Press,},
      address = {Amherst :},
      pages = {xvi, 302 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"Taking on what one former U.S. ambassador called "the  last ghost of the Vietnam War," this book examines the  far-reaching impact of Agent Orange, the most infamous of  the dioxin-contaminated herbicides used by American forces  in Southeast Asia. Beginning in the early 1960s, when  chemical defoliants were first deployed in Vietnam, Edwin  A. Martini looks for answers to a host of still unresolved  questions. What did chemical manufacturers and American  policymakers know about the effects of dioxin on human  beings, and when did they know it? How much do scientists  and doctors know even today? Was the use of Agent Orange a  form of chemical warfare? What can, and should, be done for  U.S. veterans, Vietnamese victims, and others around the  world who believe they have medical problems caused by  Agent Orange? Martini draws on military and government  records, scientific research, visits to contaminated sites,  and personal interviews to disentangle conflicting claims  and evaluate often ambiguous evidence. Yet for all the  answers it provides, this book also reveals how much  uncertainty-scientific, medical, legal, and  political-continues to surround the legacy of Agent  Orange."--Back cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/637889},
}