May 28, 1999

Delicately, a Historian of Science Examines the Nazis' Public-Health Campaigns

By PETER MONAGHAN

Ten testimonials on the back cover are a lot for a book from an academic press. Usually only the pulps get so many.

Princeton University Press, however, has reasons to make clear just how seriously several respected scholars are taking one of its spring releases.

In The Nazi War on Cancer, to be published next week, Robert N. Proctor makes a startling argument about Nazi science and medicine: "Fascist

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