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

Suffering for science : reason and sacrifice in modern America /

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 assumptio...

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Main Author: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Self > History > 19th century.
Science > history
Research > history
Stress, Psychological
History, 19th Century
United States > History > 19th century.
United States
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