TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herzig,Rebecca M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Suffering For Science : : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America / 
SN  - 9780813537641
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Piscataway
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Self
KW  - fast
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human body
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Medecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siecle
KW  - Stress
KW  - Moi (Psychologie)
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Stress, Psychological
KW  - Research
KW  - history
KW  - 19th century
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/17241/
ER  -