An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind

Update: 2024-04-01

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Historian of science Jeffery Mathias talks about scientific experiments in isolation during the Cold War. Mathias is the author of the Ph.D dissertation, "An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind."

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An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind

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An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind

An Empire of Solitude: Isolation and the Cold War Sciences of the Mind