Rebecca M. Lemov is a professor of the
History of Science
The history of science covers the development of science from ancient history, ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural science, natural, social science, social, and formal science, formal. Pr ...
at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
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Books
*''The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyperpersuasion'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
*''Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity'' (Yale University Press, 2015)
*with Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Thomas Sturm, and Michael D. Gordin ''How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality'' (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
*''World As Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men'' (Hill and Wang, 2005)
References
Living people
Harvard University faculty
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