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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Автор: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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Резюме: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.
Фізичний опис:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813537641
Доступ:Open Access