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By Robert N. Proctor. 380 pp. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1999. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-00196-0.

This book presents a powerful case for the primacy of German medical research, including research on cancer and epidemiologic studies of the link between tobacco and cancer, during the Nazi period. The book is very well written and makes an important contribution to the social history of medicine and medical research.

The first war on cancer was initiated not by Richard Nixon in the United States in the early 1970s but by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels in Germany in the early 1940s. Hitler was known to be a vegetarian who abstained from alcohol and tobacco and did not tolerate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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