The Nazi War on Cancer (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert N. Proctor
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: History and medicine
- Time of Work: 1900-1945
- Setting: Germany
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Science and technology
- Subjects: Racism, 1940’s, Doctors, 1930’s, Cancer, Health, Nazism or Nazis, Environment or environmental health, Germany or German people, Experiments, Research, Smoking, Radiation, Tobacco
- Locales: Germany
Robert N. Proctor is professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University. He has written extensively about politics and medicine in his previous works, which include Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don’t Know About Cancer (1995), Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (1988), and Value-Free Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge (1991).
Proctor’s The Nazi War on Cancer is an engrossing and relevant study of various aspects of medical research and public health as practiced under one of the world’s most...
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