Robert N. Proctor

Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954 ) is an American science historian and philosopher of science with a focus on biomedicine and their political implementation in the United States and Europe. He has become known to a wider audience in a lawsuit against the American tobacco industry through his testimony was the first historian.

Proctor studied biology at Indiana University until 1976 and the History of Science at Harvard University until 1977, where he gained his doctorate in 1984. He taught at Harvard, Princeton and Yale and is a professor at Stanford University. Together with his wife, the historian Londa Schiebinger, he headed for nine years the Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program ( Programme for Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture ) at the Pennsylvania State University. From January to June 2000 was a visiting scientist at the independent historical commission, which investigated between 1998 and 2005, the involvement of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the National Socialism. He is currently a professor of history at Stanford University.

Proctor is the creator of the concept agnotology, a line of research that examines the cultural creation and maintenance of ignorance.

With his wife, Londa Proctor has two children. He collects agates and has scientifically researched, what factors have contributed to the fact that they are seen as less valuable than diamonds.

Publications

  • Racial Hygiene. Medicine Under the Nazis. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1988, ISBN 0-674-74578-7.
  • Value- free science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1991, ISBN 0 - 674-93170 -X.
  • Cancer Wars. How Politics Shapes What We Know and Do not Know about Cancer. Basic Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-465-02756-3.
  • The anti -tobacco campaign of the Nazis. A little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45. In: British Medical Journal. 1996, No. 7070, Volume 313
  • The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999, ISBN 0-691-07051-2. Blitzkrieg against cancer. Health and propaganda in the Third Reich. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-91031- X.
  • The lungs of the " chosen people " are pure, review of Oliver nobility, Friday, March 22, 2002.
  • Review notes the pearl
  • The deadliest thing in the world, review of Oliver nobility, Der Standard, March 3, 2012
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