Suffering For Science : : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America / / Rebecca Herzig.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2005] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction: Truth at Any Price
- 1 Willing Captives
- 2 The Bonds of Science
- 3 Purists
- 4 Explorers
- 5 Martyrs
- 6 Barbarians
- Epilogue: The Ends of Sacrifice
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR