Suffering for Science

Rebecca Herzig

Rutgers University Press, 2006

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Explores the rise of an ethic of self-sacrifice in American science. This work describes when and how science came to rely on an investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. It examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I.

ISBN-13
9780813539515
ISBN-10
081353951X
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2006
Publication date
2006-07-21
Pages
208
Dimensions
229x152x18
Weight
312