{"product_id":"suffering-for-science-reason-and-sacrifice-in-modern-america-9780813539515","title":"Suffering for Science Reason and Sacrifice in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuffering 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eSuffering 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilling captives\u003cbr\u003e The bonds of science\u003cbr\u003e Purists\u003cbr\u003e Explorers\u003cbr\u003e Martyrs\u003cbr\u003e Barbarians","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038413062487,"sku":"9780813539515","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813539515.jpg?v=1750940258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suffering-for-science-reason-and-sacrifice-in-modern-america-9780813539515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}