Author: Robert N. Proctor
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: cancer, war, nazi
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2000-11-15
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691070512
ISBN-13: 9780691070513

Familiar as we are with the horrific history of Nazi medicine and science, it may come as a surprise to learn that the Nazi war against cancer was the most aggressive in the world. Robert N. Proctor’s thought-provoking book, The Nazi War on Cancer recounts this little-known story. The Nazis were very concerned about protecting the health of the "Volk." Cancer was seen as a growing threat--and perhaps even held a special place in Adolf Hitler’s imagination (his mother, Klara, died from breast cancer in 1907). The Nazi doctors fought their war against cancer on many fronts, battling

Author: Robert Proctor
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: nazis, medicine, hygiene, racial
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 1988-09-02
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0674745787
ISBN-13: 9780674745780

Scholars exploring the history of science under the Nazis have generally concentrated on the Nazi destruction of science or the corruption of intellectual and liberal values. Racial Hygiene focuses on how scientists themselves participated in the construction of Nazi racial policy. Robert Proctor demonstrates that the common picture of a passive scientific community coerced into cooperation with the Nazis fails to grasp the reality of what actually happened--namely, that many of the political initiatives of the Nazis arose from within the scientific community, and that medical scientists acti

Authors:Robert W. Proctor, E. J. Capaldi,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: psychological, research, methods, understanding, matters, science
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2006-01-18
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1405130490
ISBN-13: 9781405130493

Why Science Matters: Understanding the Methods of Psychological Research rises above standard research methods texts by presenting an up-to-date view of contemporary psychological science as it is currently understood and practiced. Explores not only the procedural aspects of psychological research, but also delves into the issue of how to accomplish effective science.Explicates how hypotheses and theories are to be evaluated.Suggests that the proper approach to devising and evaluating theories is by abduction, not by induction or deduction alone.Incorporates new investigatory procedures, curr

Authors:Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Robert W. Proctor,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: human, factors, ergonomics, design, web, handbook
Number of Pages: 737
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $104.95
ISBN-10: 0805846123
ISBN-13: 9780805846126

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design covers basic human factors issues relating to screen design, input devices, and information organization and processing, as well as addresses newer features which will become prominent in the next generation of Web technologies. These include multimodal interfaces, wireless capabilities, and agents that can improve convenience and usability. Written by leading researchers and/or practitioners in the field, this volume reflects the varied backgrounds and interests of individuals involved in all aspects of human factors and Web design and includes chap

Authors:Robert W. Proctor, Kim-Phuong L. Vu,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: theory, application, data, principles, response, compatibility, stimulus
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2006-03-24
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0415315360
ISBN-13: 9780415315364

Understanding of the factors that influence stimulus-response (S-R) compatibility and determine when and how compatibility effects will arise is a necessary foundation for appropriately applying compatibility principles in design and for evaluating the relative compatibility of alternative designs. Summarizing the state of contemporary knowledge regarding determinants of compatibility, Stimulus-Response Compatibility Principles: Data, Theory, and Application provides thorough, up-to-date coverage of basic and applied research coupled with an emphasis on relating this knowledge to specific desi

Authors:Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Robert W. Proctor,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: human, factors, ergonomics, design, web, handbook
Number of Pages: 737
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $319.95
ISBN-10: 0805846115
ISBN-13: 9780805846119

The Handbook of Human Factors in Web Design covers basic human factors issues relating to screen design, input devices, and information organization and processing, as well as addresses newer features which will become prominent in the next generation of Web technologies. These include multimodal interfaces, wireless capabilities, and agents that can improve convenience and usability. Written by leading researchers and/or practitioners in the field, this volume reflects the varied backgrounds and interests of individuals involved in all aspects of human factors and Web design and includes cha

Authors:Robert Proctor, Londa Schiebinger,
Publisher: Stanford University Pre
Keywords: ignorance, unmaking, making, agnotology
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-05-12
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0804759014
ISBN-13: 9780804759014

What don’t we know, and why don’t we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology—the study of ignorance—provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to ask: Why don’t we know what we don’t know? The essays assembled in Agnotology show that ignorance is often more than just an absence of knowledge; it can also be the outcome of cultural and political struggles. Ignorance has a history and a political geography, but there are also things people don’t want you to