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) 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)