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Emotions, morals, practices -- Sympathy for a devil's chaplain -- Common compassion and the mad scientist -- Sympathy as callousness? physiology and vivisection -- Sympathy, liberty, and compulsion: vaccination -- Sympathetic selection: eugenics -- Scientism and practice

Preliminary Material /R. Boddice -- Introduction. The End Of Anthropocentrism /Rob Boddice -- What Is This Quintessence Of Dust? The Concept Of The 'Human' And Its Origins /Boria Sax -- The View From Somewhere: Anthropocentrism In Metaethics /Kevin Delapp -- The Making Of The Human: Anthropocentrism In Modern Social Thought /Richie Nimmo -- Toward A Non-Anthropocentric Cosmopolitanism /Gary Steiner -- Anthropocentrism And The Medieval Problem Of Religious Language /Eric J. Silverman -- Vitruvian Man Is A Pterosaur: Notes On The Transformation Of An Architectural Ideal /Paula Young Lee -- Modernity As Anthropolarity: The Human Economy Of Frankenstein /Ben Dawson -- Anthropocentrism And The Definition Of 'Culture' As A Marker Of The Human/Animal Divide /Sabrina Tonutti -- Are Animals Poor In The World? A Critique Of Heidegger's Anthropocentrism /Philip Tonner -- Speciesism As A Variety Of Anthropocentrism /Tony Milligan -- The Instrumentalisation Of Horses In Nineteenth-Century Paris /Peter Soppelsa -- Anthropomorphism And The Animal Subject /Nik Taylor -- Social History, Religion And Technology: An Interdisciplinary Investigation Into White's 'Roots' /Robin Attfield -- An Alternative To Anthropocentrism: Deep Ecology And The Metaphysical Turn /Eccy De Jonge -- Anthropocentrism And Reason In Dialectic Of Enlightenment: Environmental Crisis And Animal Subject /André Krebber -- Index /R. Boddice.

The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions of power and authority behind cultural scripts of expression, conceptual usages, and emotional practices. This work has reached a level of maturity and sophistication in its theoretical and methodological orientation, and in its sheer quantity of empirical research, that it contributes to emotion knowledge within the broad framework of emotion research.

Ruth Leys's book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling. To most of this, Leys holds a match and allows us to stand in awe at the conflagration. In an ideal world, the psychologists would be watching too. Emotion research in psychological bowers is the heir to an epistemological inertia born of force of personality. Leys's book is a genealogy of ideas, yes, but it is also, and principally, a genealogy of academic clientelism, and of men (mostly) whose convictions, assumptions, arrogance, politics, and outright scientism have permitted, imposed, and policed two generations of faulty thinking. The jig is up.

This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a convergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important observations about the biocultural status of human beings. While the article stops short of exhorting historians to become competent neuroscientists themselves, it does demand that historians of emotions take note of the implications of social neuroscientific research in particular, with a view to capturing the potential of the emotions to unlock the history of experience, and with a mind to unlocking the political importance of work in this area, namely, the shifting ground of what it means —how it feels— to be human.

This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of emotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some of the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus, however, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a convergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important observations about the biocultural status of human beings. While the article stops short of exhorting historians to become competent neuroscientists themselves, it does demand that historians of emotions take note of the implications of social neuroscientific research in particular, with a view to capturing the potential of the emotions to unlock the history of experience, and with a mind to unlocking the political importance of work in this area, namely, the shifting ground of what it means —how it feels— to be human.

"This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness or trauma, and gives an account of how medical practitioners, experts, lay authorities and the public have felt about such disruptions. Considering all sides of the medical encounter and highlighting the intersection of intellectual history and medical knowledge, of institutional atmospheres, built environments and technological practicalities, and of emotional and sensory experience, Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History presents a wide-ranging affective account of feeling well and of feeling ill. Especially occupied with the ways in which dynamics of power and authority have either validated or discounted dis-eased feelings, the book's contributors probe at the intersectional politics of medical expertise and patient experience to better understand situated expressions of illness, their reception, and their social, cultural and moral valuation. Drawing on methodologies from the histories of emotions, senses, science and the medical humanities, this book gives an account of the complexity of undergoing illness: of feeling dis-ease"--