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Pain: A Very Short Introduction

By: Rob Boddice

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Pain: A Very Short Introduction

By: Rob Boddice

What is pain? Has the experience of pain always been the same? How is pain related to the emotions, to culture, and to pleasure? What happens to us when we feel pain? How does pain work in the body and in the brain? In this Very Short Introduction, Rob Boddice explores the history, culture, and medical science of pain. Charting the shifting meanings of pain across time and place, he focusses on how the experience and treatment of pain have changed. He describes historical hierarchies of pain experience that related pain to social class and race, and the privileging of human states of pain over that of other animals. From the pain concepts of classical antiquity to expressions of pain in contemporary art, and modern medical approaches to the understanding, treatment, and management of pain, Boddice weaves a multifaceted account of this central human experience. Ranging from neuroscientific innovations in experimental medicine to the constructionist arguments of social scientists, pain is shown to resist a timeless definition. Pain is physical and emotional, of body and mind, and is always experienced subjectively and contextually. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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Oxford University Press

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0191058467

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The history of emotions

By: Rob Boddice

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The history of emotions

By: Rob Boddice

This book introduces students and professional historians to the main areas of concern in the history of emotions. It discusses how the emotions intersect with other lines of historical research relating to power, practice, society and morality. Addressing criticism from within and without the discipline of history, the book offers a rigorous defence of this new approach, demonstrating its potential centrality to historiographical practice, as well as the importance of this kind of historical work for our general understanding of the human brain and the meaning of human experience.

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Manchester University Press

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1526126001

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Edward Jenner

The Vaccination Visionary

By: Rob Boddice

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Edward Jenner

The Vaccination Visionary

By: Rob Boddice

Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness and death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner helped to end. Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox, in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and inserted it into the arm of a young boy. To test this, the first human-to-human vaccination, he subsequently inoculated the boy with smallpox itself, and found him to be immune from the disease. In 1979 smallpox was declared extinct. In this concise biography, Rob Boddice tells the story of Jenner's life, his medical vision and his profound legacy. It is a story that encompasses revolutions in medical experimentation, public health provision and the prevention of other diseases, from anthrax to measles, but above all it highlights the profound impact that Jenner's vision has had upon humanity's battle against disease.

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The History Press

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0750966858

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The Science of Sympathy

Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization

By: Rob Boddice

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The Science of Sympathy

Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization

By: Rob Boddice

In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwinists defined and employed it. As Boddice shows, their interpretations of Darwin's ideas sparked a cacophonous discourse intent on displacing previous notions of sympathy. Scientific and medical progress demanded that "cruel" practices like vivisection and compulsory vaccination be seen as moral for their ultimate goal of alleviating suffering. Some even saw the so-called unfit--natural targets of sympathy--as a danger to society and encouraged procreation by the "fit" alone. Right or wrong, these early Darwinists formed a moral economy that acted on a new system of ethics, reconceptualized obligations, and executed new duties. Boddice persuasively argues that the bizarre, even dangerous formulations of sympathy they invented influence society and civilization in the present day.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252099028

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9780252099021

Humane Professions

The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 18761914

By: Rob Boddice

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Humane Professions

The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 18761914

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Rob Boddice explores the transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108490093

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Emotion, Sense, Experience

By: Rob Boddice,Mark Smith

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Emotion, Sense, Experience

By: Rob Boddice,Mark Smith

Emotion, Sense, Experience calls on historians of emotions and the senses to come together in serious and sustained dialogue. The Element outlines the deep if largely unacknowledged genealogy of historical writing insisting on a braided history of emotions and the senses; explains why recent historical treatments have sometimes profitably but nonetheless unhelpfully segregated the emotions from the senses; and makes a compelling case for the heuristic and interpretive dividends of bringing emotions and sensory history into conversation. Ultimately, we envisage a new way of understanding historical lived experience generally, as a mutable product of a situated world-brain-body dynamic. Such a project necessarily points us towards new interdisciplinary engagement and collaboration, especially with social neuroscience. Unpicking some commonly held assumptions about affective and sensory experience, we re-imagine the human being as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108865402

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A History of Feelings

By: Rob Boddice

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A History of Feelings

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What does it mean to feel something? What stimulates our desires, aspirations, and dreams? Did our ancestors feel in the same way as we do? In a wave of new research over the past decade, historians have tried to answer these questions, seeking to make sense of our feelings, passions, moods, emotions, and sentiments. For the first time, however, Rob Boddice brings together the latest findings to trace the complex history of feelings from antiquity to the present. A History of Feelings is a compelling account of the unsaid—the gestural, affective, and experiential. Arguing that how we feel is the dynamic product of the existence of our minds and bodies in moments of time and space, Boddice uses a progressive approach that integrates biological, anthropological, and social and cultural factors, describing the transformation of emotional encounters and individual experiences across the globe. The work of one of the world’s leading scholars of the history of emotions, this epic exploration of our affective life will fascinate, enthrall, and move all of us interested in our own well-being—anyone with feeling.

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Reaktion Books

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1789141001

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Pain: A Very Short Introduction

By: Rob Boddice

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The Science of Sympathy

Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization

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Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization

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Emotion, Sense, Experience

By: Rob Boddice,Mark Smith

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Edward Jenner

The Vaccination Visionary

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The Vaccination Visionary

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The Blue-Footed Booby

By: Rob Biddulph

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The Blue-Footed Booby

By: Rob Biddulph

The newest picture book written and illustrated by the bestselling and award-winning Rob Biddulph, the creative star behind the viral and phenomenal #DrawWithRob!

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Pain: A Very Short Introduction

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The history of emotions

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Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

The Science of Sympathy

The Science of Sympathy

Humane Professions

Humane Professions

Emotion, Sense, Experience

Emotion, Sense, Experience

A History of Feelings

A History of Feelings

Pain: A Very Short Introduction

Pain: A Very Short Introduction

The Science of Sympathy

The Science of Sympathy

Emotion, Sense, Experience

Emotion, Sense, Experience

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

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