The science of sympathy : morality, evolution, and Victorian civilization / Rob Boddice.

  • Boddice, Rob
Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Physical description

xii, 179 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-173) and index.

Contents

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PQE.AA8
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780252040580
  • 0252040589
  • 9780252082054
  • 0252082052