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Book SynopsisSuffering 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.
Trade ReviewThis is a book by a gifted, mature scholar who writes with real fluency and who makes arguments thickly rooted in relevant literatures and archives that matter to audiences in science, technology, and medicine studies; American studies; and gender and race studies. -- Donna J. Haraway * History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz *
This is a book by a gifted, mature scholar who writes with real fluency and who makes arguments thickly rooted in relevant literatures and archives that matter to audiences in science, technology, and medicine studies; American studies; and gender and race studies. -- Donna J. Haraway * History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz *
A smart and sophisticated exploration .This book embodies the best of what cultural history can do: use literary techniques to elucidate important historical questions. -- Laura Brigg * associate professor of women's studies, University of Arizona *
Suffering for Science is an elegant treatment of motives that led to a scientific career in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. At one end of this period, doing science was advertised as form of asceticism; at the other, as fun. Herzig's intelligent book shows how this transition testifies to the meaning of modernity. -- Steven Shapin * Department of the History of Science, Harvard University *
Table of ContentsWilling captives
The bonds of science
Purists
Explorers
Martyrs
Barbarians
