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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Autore principale: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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Sommario:
  • Willing captives
  • The bonds of science
  • Purists
  • Explorers
  • Martyrs
  • Barbarians.