Herzig, Rebecca M.,  1971- <br/><br/>
Suffering For Science :   Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America /  
Rebecca M. Herzig. 
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<br/><br/>Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians. 
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<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Self.<br/>Science--Social aspects.<br/>Human body--Social aspects.<br/>MEDICAL--History.<br/>SCIENCE--History.<br/>Medecine--Histoire--19e siecle.<br/>Stress.<br/>Moi (Psychologie)--Histoire--19e siecle.<br/>Sciences--Aspect social--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle.<br/>History, 19th Century<br/>Stress, Psychological<br/>Research--history<br/>Science--history<br/>Self--History--19th century.<br/>Human body--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Science--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>États-Unis--Histoire--19e siecle.<br/>United States<br/>United States--History--19th century.
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