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Zustand: New. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313. . 2006. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine / Herzig, Rebecca M., ed. The nature of difference: sciences of race in the United States from Jefferson to genomics. Edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. Herzig. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, xiv, 380pp., large square PAPERBACK, covers neatly laminated with tape, clean ex-library book with only minimal stamps, "withdrawn" stamps, barcode. 'The Nature of Difference' documents how distinctions between people have been generated in and by the life sciences. Through commentaries and a wide-ranging selection of primary documents, it charts the shifting boundaries of science and race over more than two centuries of American history. - CONTENTS: Introduction -- 1. Dictionary definitions of "race" -- Introduction -- 1.1. A complete pronouncing medical dictionary : embracing the terminology of medicine and the kindred sciences, with their signification, etymology, and pronunciation (1886) / J. Thomas -- 1.2. A practical medical dictionary (1911) / T.L. Stedman -- 1.3. Gould's medical dictionary : containing all the words and phrases generally used in medicine and the allied sciences, with their proper pronunciation, derivation, and definition based on recent medical literature (1928) / G.M. Gould -- 1.4. Dictionary of Anthropology (1956) / C. Winick -- 1.5. A dictionary of scientific terms (1957) / I.F. Henderson, W.D. Henderson -- 1.6. Dictionary of the biological sciences (1967) / P. Gray -- 1.7. A dictionary of anthropology (1972) / D.M. Davies -- 1.8. McGraw-Hill dictionary of the life sciences (1976) -- 1.9. Macmillan dictionary of anthropology (1986) / C. Seymour-Smith --^ 1.10. International dictionary of medicine and biology (1986) / S.I. Landau, ed. -- 1.11. Dictionary of genetics and cell biology (1987) / N. Maclean -- 1.12. Glossary of genetics : classical and molecular (1991) / R. Rieger -- 1.13. Encyclopedia & dictionary of medicine, nursing, & allied health (1992) / B.F. Miller -- 1.14. A dictionary of genetics (1997) / R. King -- 1.15. The Cambridge dictionary of human biology and evolution (2005) / L.L. Mai, M. Young Owl, M.P. Kersting -- 2. Anatomical observations -- Introduction -- 2.1. "Laws" (Query IX) (1781-1782) / Thomas Jefferson -- 2.2 "Letter to the Secretary of State" (1791) / Benjamin Banneker -- 2.3. Thomas Jefferson's reply to Banneker (1791) -- 2.4. "The effect of circumstances upon the physical man" (1854) / Frederick Douglass -- 2.5. "Peculiarities in the structure and diseases of the ear of the Negro" (1887) / T.E. Murrell --^ 2.6. "The deformity termed 'pug nose' and its correction by a simple operation" (1887) / John Orlando Roe -- 2.7. "The hair and wool of the different species of man" (1850) -- 2.8. "On some of the apparent peculiarities of partuition in the Negro races" (1875) / Joseph Taber Johnson. 3. Immunity and contagion -- Introduction -- 3.1. "Report on the diseases and physical peculiarities of the Negro race" (1851) / Samuel A. Cartwright -- 3.2. "The plague spot" (1878) / Mary P. Sawtelle -- 3.3. "Consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 3.4. "Does pulmonary consumption tend to exterminate the American Indian?" (1887) / Thomas Mays -- 3.5. "The study of consumption among the Indians" (1887) / Washington Matthews -- 4. Evolution and degeneration -- Introduction -- 4.1. "The impossibility of acclimatizing races" (1861) -- 4.2. "Vital statistics of the Negro" (1892) / Frederick L. Hoffman -- 4.3. "The influence of environment and race on diseases" (1910) / C.W. Birnie -- 4.4. "How to improve the race" (1914) / Alexander Graham Bell -- 5. Techniques of measurement -- Introduction -- 5.1. Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers (1869) / Benjamin Gould -- 5.2. "Some recent criticisms of physical anthropology" (1899) / Franz Boas -- 5.3. "Observations on the sweat glands of tropical and Northern races" (1917) /Elbert Clark, Ruskin H. Lhamon -- 5.4. "The color-top method of estimating skin pigmen. …

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 assumption that science requires such suffering In this lucid and absorbing history, Rebecca M. Herzig explores the rise of an ethic of 'self-sacrifice' in American science. Delving into some of the more bewildering practices of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, she describes when and how science-the supposed standard of all things judicious and disinterested-came to rely on an enthralled investigator willing to embrace toil, danger, and even lethal dismemberment. With attention to shifting racial, sexual, and transnational politics, Herzig examines the suffering scientist as a way to understand the rapid transformation of American life between the Civil War and World War I. Suffering 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.…