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...

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Main Author: Herzig, Rebecca M., 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central