Proctor, Robert

Proctor, Robert N. 1995. Cancer Wars How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don t Know About Cancer. New York Basic Books. 

Cole, M. M. (1992), in The Ecology of Areas with Serpentanized Rocks. A World View Roberts, B. A., Proctor, J. (eds.), Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publications pp. 343-373. 

Bolam DN, Roberts S, Proctor MR, Turkenburg JP, Dodson EJ, Martinez-Fleites C, Yang M, Davis BG, Davies GJ, Gilbert... 

Martinez-Heites C, Proctor M, Roberts S, Bolam DN, Gilbert HJ, Davies GJ (2006) Chem Biol 13 1143... 

Additionally, Robert N. Proctor has written The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999). Among the items reported is that Nazi scientists were the first to link smoking and cancer. Other policies and discoveries that predated the rest of the world were healthier workplaces, restrictions against asbestos, pesticides, and food additives, as well as improvements in diet and lifestyles. (Nevertheless, there are reports that Hitler was addicted to sugar and sweets.) This contrasts sharply with the unmentionable atrocities of inhuman medical experiments and the death camps. 

Hitler recognized that the direct takeover of private property provokes powerful emotional and political resistance. One of the secrets of his rise to power was that he managed to portray the National Socialist movement as opposed to such a measure, indeed to Communism itself As Robert Proctor notes. Hitler understood that there was no need to nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people. 1 want to emphasize here that 1 regard right-wing Nazism and left-wing Communism not as two antagonistic political systems, but as two similar types of socialism (statism)—one brown, or national, the other red, or international. Both kinds of statists were very successful in their efforts to undermine autonomy and destroy morality. 

In The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert N. Proctor, professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, remarks on the similarities between pharmacratic controls in Nazi Germany and the United States today, only to dismiss them as irrelevant. My intention, writes Proctor, is not to argue that today s antitobacco efforts have fascist roots, or that public health measures are in principle totalitarian—as some libertarians seem to want us to believe. Proctor s systematic labeling of Nazi health measures as fascist is as misleading as it is politically correct. Hitler was not a fascist and National Socialism was not a fascist movement. It was a socialist movement wrapped in the flag of nationalism. The terms fascist and fascism belong to Mussolini and his movement, and to Franco s, neither of which exhibited the kind of interest in health or genocide that was exhibited by Hitler and the Nazis. 

Agathocleus D, Buckwell S, Proctor P, Page MI (1985) In Brown AG, Roberts SM (eds) Recent advances in the chemistry of P-lactam antibiotics, Chem Soc Special Public 52, chap 2... 

On the history of perception and imperception in modern Europe, see Crary, Suspensions of Perception. On the history of ignorance, see Robert Proctor s forthcoming work on agnatology. 

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