Suffering For Science. Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America

Herzig, Rebecca M.

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ISBN 10: 0813536626 ISBN 13: 9780813536620

Published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 2005

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Suffering For Science. Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America

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Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.

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2005

Language

English

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0813536626

ISBN 13

9780813536620

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Hardback

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Very Good

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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 science. Delving into some of the more bewildering practices of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, she describes when and how science-the supposed standard of all things judicious and disinterested-came to rely on an enthralled investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. With attention to shifting racial, sexual, and transnational politics, Herzig examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the rapid transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I.

Suffering for Science reveals more than the passion evident in many scientific vocations; it also illuminates a nation's changing understandings of the purposes of suffering, the limits of reason, and the nature of freedom in the aftermath of slavery.

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Rebecca M. Herzig teaches in the Program in Women and Gender Studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

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