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Suffering For Science : Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America /
From 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 assumptio...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Piscataway :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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