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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca M Lemov |
ISBN: | 9780809098118 0809098113 0809074648 9780809074648 |
OCLC Number: | 1000129117 |
Description: | 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Strange fruits and virgin births -- Running the maze -- Embracing the real -- Psychic machines -- Circle of fear and hope -- In and out of the South -- An ordinary evening in New Haven -- The biggest file -- Anthropology's laboratory -- The impossible experiment -- The real world -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Rebecca Lemov. |
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Abstract:
"Extensively researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret anymore. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" as practised by everyone from marketers to politicians. What Rebecca Lemov traces for the first time is how the absurd, practical, and dangerous experiments of human engineers in the first half of the twentieth century left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality."--BOOK JACKET.
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