Robert Neel Proctor (born 1954) is an American science historian and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University.[1] 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.[2] At Pennsylvania State University, he and his wife, Londa Schiebinger, co-directed the Science, Medicine and Technology in Culture Program for nine years. The couple met at Harvard, where they earned their master's and doctoral degrees in 1977 and 1984, respectively.[3] He coined the term "agnotology" to describe the study of culturally-induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data.[4][5]
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Books authored
- Proctor, Robert N. (1988). Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-74578-7.
- Proctor, Robert N. (1991). Value-free Science?: Purity and Power in Modern Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-93170-X.
- Proctor, Robert N. (1995). Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know about Cancer. New York: BasicBooks. ISBN 0-465-02756-3.
- Proctor, Robert N. (1999). The Nazi War on Cancer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07051-2.
- Proctor, Robert N. (2000). Adolf Butenandt (1903-1995): Nobelpreisträger, Nationalsozialist und MPG-Präsident: Ein erster Blick in den Nachlass. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. LCCN 2001-375957.
- Proctor, Robert N. [1999] (2002). Blitzkrieg gegen den Krebs. Gesundheit und Propaganda im Dritten Reich. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. ISBN 3-608-91031-X.
References
- ^ Stanford History Department : Robert N. Proctor. Stanford University. Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
- ^ Cohen, Patricia (2003-06-14). History for Hire in Industry Lawsuits. New York Times. Retrieved on 2007-08-12. “'The historical profession has really not been prepared for this,' said Robert N. Proctor, a professor of the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, who in 1999 became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. 'We don't have disclosure rules for publications, we haven't had discussions about the ethics of whether to testify or not to testify.'”
- ^ IRWG director hopes to create 'go to' center for gender studies. Stanford News Service (2004-10-13). Retrieved on 2007-08-12.
- ^ Arenson, Karen W. "What Organizations Don't Want to Know Can Hurt", New York Times, 2006-08-22. "'there is a lot more protectiveness than there used to be,' said Dr.Proctor, who is shaping a new field, the study of ignorance, which he calls agnotology. 'It is often safer not to know.'"
- ^ Kreye, Andrian (2007). We Will Overcome Agnotology (The Cultural Production Of Ignorance). The Edge World Question Center 2007. Edge Foundation. Retrieved on 2007-08-12. “This is about a society's choice between listening to science and falling prey to what Stanford science historian Robert N. Proctor calls agnotology (the cultural production of ignorance)”
External links
Online papers and interviews
- The Agateer
- Anti-Agate: The Great Diamond Hoax and the Semiprecious Stone Scam
- Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy
- Rendez-vous with Robert Proctor
- The anti-tobacco campaign of the Nazis: a little known aspect of public health in Germany, 1933-45
- Die Lungen des "erwählten Volkes" sind rein
- Molecular Anthropology, the refigured Acheulean, and the UNESCO Response to Auschwitz
- Commentary: Schairer and Schöniger's forgotten tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity
- Historical Reconstruction of Tobacco and Health in the U.S., 1954-1994
- Three Roots of Human Recency
- Hindsight
