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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	HM668 .L46 2005		AVAILABLE

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Author	Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura)
Title	World as laboratory : experiments with mice, mazes, and men / Rebecca Lemov.
Edition	First edition.
OCLC	58451877
ISBN	0809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publisher	New York : Hill and Wang, 2005.
Description	291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Social engineering -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Behavior modification -- Study and teaching -- United States.
	Psychoanalysis.
Medical Subject heading/s	Ergonomics -- history -- United States.
	Behavior Control -- history -- United States.
	Behavioral Sciences -- history -- United States.
	History, 20th Century -- United States.
	Research Design -- United States.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-275) and index.
Summary	The idea in the 1930s and 1940s was to build a system by which people's actions and behaviors--eventually even their thoughts--could be predicted and controlled. To cure society's ills was the goal. The early "social scientists" ran animals, then men, through mazes, strapping them to galvanic skin response recorders and "punishment grills." With World War II came federal money and new techniques, as vast amounts of information were collected, filed, and fed to computers so that everything from personal preferences to national loyalty could be measured, targeted, studied, and changed. And with the Cold War, well-intentioned programs took a sinister turn. With CIA encouragement, and using drugs and psychosurgery, scientists turned to brainwashing, interrogation techniques, and remote-control behavior. Author Lemov traces how the absurd, the practical, and the dangerous experiments of these human engineers left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality.--From publisher description.
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.

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ISBN	0809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author	Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura)
Title	World as laboratory : experiments with mice, mazes, and men / Rebecca Lemov.
Publisher	New York : Hill and Wang, 2005.

Title

World as laboratory : experiments with mice, mazes, and men / Rebecca Lemov.

Author

Lemov, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Maura)

ISBN	0809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Description

291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

OCLC

58451877

Publisher

New York : Hill and Wang, 2005.

Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-275) and index.
Summary	The idea in the 1930s and 1940s was to build a system by which people's actions and behaviors--eventually even their thoughts--could be predicted and controlled. To cure society's ills was the goal. The early "social scientists" ran animals, then men, through mazes, strapping them to galvanic skin response recorders and "punishment grills." With World War II came federal money and new techniques, as vast amounts of information were collected, filed, and fed to computers so that everything from personal preferences to national loyalty could be measured, targeted, studied, and changed. And with the Cold War, well-intentioned programs took a sinister turn. With CIA encouragement, and using drugs and psychosurgery, scientists turned to brainwashing, interrogation techniques, and remote-control behavior. Author Lemov traces how the absurd, the practical, and the dangerous experiments of these human engineers left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality.--From publisher description.
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.

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First edition.