Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America / Rebecca M. Herzig.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813537641
- 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
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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