Suffering For Science

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