Ebook: Suffering for science : reason and sacrifice in modern America
Author: Herzig Rebecca M
- Tags: Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. United States -- History -- 19th century. Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Self -- History -- 19th century. SCIENCE -- History. MEDICAL -- History. Human body -- Social aspects. Science -- Social aspects. Self. Un
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- City: Piscataway, United States, United States
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
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Features the history of American science. The author examines the rise of an ethic of "self-sacrifice" during the Gilded Age. Delving into some of the more bewildering practices in the history of Read more...
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