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010    2005006882 
020    0809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
020    9780809074648 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
035    (OCoLC)58451877 
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050 00 HM668|b.L46 2005 
100 1  Lemov, Rebecca M.|q(Rebecca Maura) 
245 10 World as laboratory :|bexperiments with mice, mazes, and 
       men /|cRebecca Lemov. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bHill and Wang,|c2005. 
300    291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations ;
       |c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-275) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 Social engineering|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Behavior modification|xStudy and teaching|zUnited States. 
650  0 Psychoanalysis. 
650 12 Ergonomics|xhistory|zUnited States. 
650 22 Behavior Control|xhistory|zUnited States. 
650 22 Behavioral Sciences|xhistory|zUnited States. 
650 22 History, 20th Century|zUnited States. 
650 22 Research Design|zUnited States. 
856 41 |zTable of contents only|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/
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856 42 |zContributor biographical information|uhttp://www.loc.gov
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