"Experiments in Skin examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, categories assumed to be manifest on our skin but only rendered so through great scientific, commercial, and aesthetic efforts. It uncovers the...
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"Experiments in Skin examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, categories assumed to be manifest on our skin but only rendered so through great scientific, commercial, and aesthetic efforts. It uncovers the work of wartime scientists in the U.S. Military Dermatology Research Program, who attempted to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' bodies, while helping to shore up these chemical's widespread use, and ties these efforts to the labors of women in contemporary Vietnam, struggling to remediate war's biochemical effects"--
Mysteries of the Visible -- Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation -- The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange -- An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security -- A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta -- Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable
