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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 assumptio...

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Main Author: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Self > History > 19th century.
SCIENCE > History.
MEDICAL > History.
Human body > Social aspects.
Science > Social aspects.
Self.
United States.
1800-1899
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