Rebecca Lemov: 3 books
World as Laboratory
Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Deeply researched, World as Laboratory tells a secret history that's not really a secret. The fruits of human engineering are all around us: advertising, polls, focus groups, the ubiquitous habit of "spin" practiced by marketers and politicians. What Rebecca Lemov cleverly traces for the...
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind
The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology,...
Database of Dreams
The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights promised by Rorschach tests and other innovative scientific...