Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America

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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 ethic of "self-sacrifice" in American...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:081353951X

ISBN13:9780813539515

Release Date:July 2006

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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