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