Home front : the government's war on soldiers : a report on how America's weapons, medicines, and bureaucracies of mass destruction harm our troops and veterans / by Rick Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Rick, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Health and hygiene--United States.

Soldiers.

Soldiers--Civil rights--United States.

Soldiers--Medical care--United States.

Veterans--Health and hygiene--United States.

Veterans.

Veterans--Civil rights--United States.

Veterans--Medical care--United States.

Veterans--Medical care.

Civil rights.

Veterans--Health and hygiene.

Soldiers--Medical care.

Soldiers--Civil rights.

Soldiers--Health and hygiene.

United States.

United States--Armed Forces--Personnel management.

Armed Forces.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

200 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, GA. : Clarity Press, [2004]

Summary:

For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-196) and index.

ISBN:

0932863418

OCLC:

54822908