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The idea in the 1930s and 1940s was to build a grand system by which people's actions and behaviors, and eventually even their thoughts, could be predicted and controlled. To cure society's ills was the goal. That the early "social scientists" ran animals, then men, through mazes and other controversial experiments seemed a small price to pay. But World War II and the cold war brought federal money and new techniques, and decades of basically benevolent programs took a sinister turn.r With CIA encouragement, scientists finally turned to brainwashing, interrogation techniques, and the remote control of human behavior. Extensively researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really secret anymore. Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the first time how the absurd, practical, and dangerous experiments of the Human engineers of the first half of the twentieth century left their laboratories to become our day-to-day reality. Book jacket.

Rebecca Lemov teaches history and anthropology at the University of Washington. This is her first book.

Introduction

(8)

PART ONE MAZES: INTO THE LABORATORY

Strange Fruits and Virgin Births

(13)

Running the Maze

(22)

Embracing the Real

(25)

PART TWO ROOMS: FREUD AND BEHAVIORISM COME TOGETHER

Psychic Machines

(16)

Circle of Fear and Hope

(20)

In and Out of the South

107

(18)

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven

125

(22)

PART THREE FILES: OUT OF THE LABORATORY

The Biggest File

147

(23)

Anthropology's Laboratory

170

(18)

The Impossible Experiment

188

(34)

The Real World

222

(21)

Conclusion

243

(8)

Notes

251

(26)

Acknowledgments

277

(2)

Index

279

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