ISBN:
9780813536620
,
0813537649
,
081353951X
,
0813536626
,
9780813539515
,
9780813537641
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
Parallel Title:
Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971 - Suffering for science
Parallel Title:
Print version
Keywords:
1800-1899
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Self
;
Science
;
Human body
;
Self History 19th century
;
Science Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Human body Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
History, 19th Century
;
Science history
;
Research history
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Stress, Psychological
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Sciences - Aspect social - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Moi (Psychologie) - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Stress
;
Médecine - Histoire - 19e siècle
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SCIENCE - History
;
MEDICAL - History
;
Human body - Social aspects
;
Science - Social aspects
;
Self
;
History
;
United States
;
United States History 19th century
;
United States
;
États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
United States
;
USA
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Geschichte 1800-1920
;
USA
;
Naturwissenschaftler
;
Leid
;
Geschichte 1800-1920
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-186) and index
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