| Bodies, hearts, and minds: Why emotions matter to historians of science and medicine. | |
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PMID: 20380348 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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The histories of emotion address many fundamental themes of science and medicine. These include the ways the body and its workings have been historically observed and measured, the rise of the mind sciences, and the anthropological analyses by which "ways of knowing" are culturally situated. Yet such histories bring their own challenges, not least in how historians of science and medicine view the relationship between bodies, minds, and emotions. This essay explores some of the methodological challenges of emotion history, using the sudden death of the surgeon John Hunter from cardiac disease as a case study. It argues that we need to let go of many of our modem assumptions about the origin of emotions, and "brainhood", that dominate discussions of identity, in order to explore the historical meanings of emotions as products of the body as well as the mind. |
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Authors:
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Fay Bound Alberti |
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Type: Biography; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Isis; an international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences Volume: 100 ISSN: 0021-1753 ISO Abbreviation: Isis Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
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Created Date: 2010-04-12 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 2985182R Medline TA: Isis Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 798-810 Citation Subset: IM; Q |
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Department of History, Queen Mary University of London, London 1 4NS, United Kingdom. f.boundalberti@qmul.ac.uk |
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//Wellcome Trust |
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John Hunter |
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