Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America / Rebecca M. Herzig.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
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Contents:
Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians.
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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Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians.

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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 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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