Title Suffering for science : reason and sacrifice in modern America / Rebecca M. Herzig.

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Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (207 pages)
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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.
Contents	Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-186) and index.
Subject	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.
	Human body -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01730101
	Science -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01108360
	Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form:	Print version: 9780813536620
ISBN	9780813537641 (electronic bk.)
	0813537649 (electronic bk.)
	0813536626
	9780813536620
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