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World as laboratory
experiments with mice, mazes, and men
By Lemov, Rebecca
- ISBN
- 978-0-80907-464-8
- Publisher
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 15, 2005
This intriguing history of social engineering reveals both the boldness of its failures and its living legacy in contemporary applications like focus groups and advertising techniques, behavior modification and self-help strategies, and perhaps even coercive interrogation tactics like those used at Abu Ghraib. Lemov (history & anthropology, Univ. of Washington) begins her first book by covering obscure pioneers (e.g., German American biologist Jacq...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
