Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Summary: | 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 assumption that science requires such suffering? In this lucid and absorbing history, Rebecca M. Herzig explores the rise of an ethic of "self-sacrifice" in American science. Delving into some of the more bewildering practices of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, she describes when an. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813537641 |
| Access: | Open Access |