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      Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis

      Robert N. Proctor

      This book focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Proctor demonstrates that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the…

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      Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

      Robert N. Proctor

      The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the…

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      Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge

      Robert N. Proctor

      A study of the politics of science, emphasizing the importance of the political origins and impact of scientific ideas. It traces the origins of value-neutrality before the 18th century, explores…

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      The Nazi War on Cancer

      Robert Proctor

      Were the Nazis more complex morally than we thought? Can good science come from an evil regime? What might this reveal about health activism in our own society? This book…

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      Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

      Agnotology-the study of how ignorance is produced and maintained-introduces a new and much-needed perspective for scholars across all fields of research, including the humanities and social sciences, business organization, and…

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      Packaged Pleasures

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      From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and…

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      Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

      A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products. The…

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      Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives

      A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products. The…

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      An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum …; [Pt. 1] v. 2 1898

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum …; Pt. 2, s. 1 1903

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      Higher Mental Processes

      In this new book, Robert W. Proctor curates a collection of celebrated and seminal articles from the past 125 years of the American Journal of Psychology . The debut volume…

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