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...
| Основен автор: | Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=476543 |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (207 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-186) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813537641 0813537649 |