03379nam 2200661Ia 450 991052487670332120200520144314.01-283-54341-997866138558620-8135-3764-910.36019/9780813537641(CKB)2670000000238642(EBL)997519(OCoLC)809774594(SSID)ssj0000701938(PQKBManifestationID)11426487(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701938(PQKBWorkID)10679239(PQKB)11168485(MiAaPQ)EBC997519(MdBmJHUP)muse21502(DE-B1597)529548(DE-B1597)9780813537641(Au-PeEL)EBL997519(CaPaEBR)ebr10593848(CaONFJC)MIL385586(EXLCZ)99267000000023864220050127d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSuffering for science reason and sacrifice in modern America /Rebecca M. Herzig1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20051 online resource (207 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3662-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-186) and index.Willing captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians.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.ScienceSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryHuman bodySocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySelfHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistory19th centuryScienceSocial aspectsHistoryHuman bodySocial aspectsHistorySelfHistory509.73/09/034Herzig Rebecca M.1971-1097529MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910524876703321Suffering For Science2617971UNINA