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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Dioxins > adverse effects.
Environmental Exposure.
Herbicides > adverse effects.
Veterans.
Warfare.
Table of 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.