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KHROPF.AN HISTORY / HIST( )RY OF SCIHNCF Winner of the 1999 Arthur Viseltear Prize THE NAZI WAR ON CANCER ROBERT N. PROCTOR Robert Proctor recently made the explosive discovery that Na/i Germany was decades ahead of other countries in promoting health reforms that we today regard as progres sive and socially responsible, including anti-smoking campaigns, restrictions on asbestos, pesticides, and food dyes, and the promotion of vegetarianism. Proctor explores these findings and concludes that the Nazi's forward-looking health activism stemmed from the ideal of a racial utopia reserved exclusively lor pure and healthy Germans. "Good historical work surprises us by recovering forgotten facets of the past. Robert N. Proctor has produced a book full of surprises." --The New York Times "The Nazi War on Corn er is a provocative and powerful book. It presents a great deal of research in an accessible, even breezy style and makes important contributions both to the history of medicine and to our understanding of fascism's many dimensions." --The Times Higher Edueation Supplement "Proctor's account is astounding. ... [He| has now brought us a concept nearly as unset tling |as Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil']--the 'banality of good.''' --Washington Post Book World "Well documented and highly readable. . . . This is an important book which will encourage the reader to reflect on the ways in which medical science was conducted and used in the twentieth century." --Nature Robf.kt N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Corner Wars: How Polities Shapes What VVe Know and Don 't Know about Cancer. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis: and lalue-Ftee Science? Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. Cover illustration: The Nazi party barred smoking in many public spaces. Prom Anf tier Wuclit 5K ( 1941 i:24. PRINCETON PAPERBACKS IS;bn ()-6!91 -070f>1-2 1ill 11 11 11 inn ii1 1 90000 9 "780691" 07051:5