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Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America /

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From gruesome self-experimentation to exhausting theoretical calculations, stories abound of scientists willfully surrendering health, well-being, and personal interests for the sake of their work. What accounts for the prevalence of this coupling of knowledge and pain-and for the peculiar assumptio...

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Main Author: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Self.
Science > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
MEDICAL > History.
SCIENCE > History.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Stress.
Moi (Psychologie) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Sciences > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
History, 19th Century
Stress, Psychological
Research > history
Science > history
Self > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
United States
United States > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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