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Robert N. Proctor

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in The United States

January 01, 1954

Website

http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/proctor.html

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Health, Mind & Body, History

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American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.While a professor of the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry.

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	Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor (Editor), Londa Schiebinger (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition 4.31 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nazi War on Cancer 3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis 4.08 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation by George J. Annas (Editor), Michael A. Grodin, Robert N. Proctor (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire by Gary S. Cross, Robert N. Proctor 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know And Don't Know About Cancer 3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Value-Free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“An important aspect of an epistemology of ignorance is the realization that ignorance should not be theorized as a simple omission or passive gap but is, in many cases, an active production.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance

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“Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

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“The total value of all goods shipped to Europe from 1947 through 1951 was about $13 billion, about $1 billion of which was tobacco. Nearly a third (!) of all “food-related” funding in the plan went for tobacco.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

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