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28%OFFRobert N. Proctor - The Nazi War on Cancer - 9780691070513 - V9780691070513
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The Nazi War on Cancer

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Description for The Nazi War on Cancer Paperback. 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 explores these controversial and troubling questions. Num Pages: 392 pages, 40 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM; JPFQ; MBGR; MBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
Collaboration in the Holocaust. Murderous and torturous medical experiments. The "euthanasia" of hundreds of thousands of people with mental or physical disabilities. Widespread sterilization of "the unfit." Nazi doctors committed these and countless other atrocities as part of Hitler's warped quest to create a German master race. Robert Proctor recently made the explosive discovery, however, that Nazi Germany was also decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progressive and socially responsible. Most startling, Nazi scientists were the first to definitively link lung cancer and cigarette smoking. Proctor explores the controversial and troubling questions ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691070513
SKU
V9780691070513
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About Robert N. Proctor
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know about Cancer; Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis; and Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge.

Reviews for The Nazi War on Cancer
Winner of the 1999 Arthur Viseltear Prize for the History of Public Health in America, Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association "The Nazi war on cancer? Other readers may be as incredulous as I was when this book came to my attention. We think of Hitler's regime as waging war on nations and peoples, not on behalf ... Read more

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