LEADER 03379nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910524876703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-54341-9 010 $a9786613855862 010 $a0-8135-3764-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537641 035 $a(CKB)2670000000238642 035 $a(EBL)997519 035 $a(OCoLC)809774594 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000701938 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11426487 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701938 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10679239 035 $a(PQKB)11168485 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC997519 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21502 035 $a(DE-B1597)529548 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL997519 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593848 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL385586 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000238642 100 $a20050127d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSuffering for science $ereason and sacrifice in modern America /$fRebecca M. Herzig 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3662-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 125-186) and index. 327 $aWilling captives -- The bonds of science -- Purists -- Explorers -- Martyrs -- Barbarians. 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aScience$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSelf$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aScience$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aSelf$xHistory 676 $a509.73/09/034 700 $aHerzig$b Rebecca M.$f1971-$01097529 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524876703321 996 $aSuffering For Science$92617971 997 $aUNINA