02711oam 22005414a 450 991015161170332120240505192031.00-252-09902-8(CKB)3710000000951723(MiAaPQ)EBC4792739(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724055(OCoLC)958371412(MdBmJHUP)muse56964(EXLCZ)99371000000095172320160829d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Science of Sympathy Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization /Rob Boddice1st ed.Urbana, Chicaggo, Springfield, [Illinois] :University of Illinois Press,2016.©20161 online resource (155 pages)History of emotionsPreviously issued in print: 2016.0-252-08205-2 0-252-04058-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.In his 'Descent of Man', Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in civilized 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 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. Combining the history of emotions, the history of medicine, the history of science and the history of morality, Boddice shows how specific interpretations of Darwinism sparked a cacophonous discourse intent on displacing previous notions of sympathy.History of emotions.Religion and scienceGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEthicsGreat BritainHistory19th centurySympathyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryElectronic books. Religion and scienceHistoryEthicsHistorySympathyHistory201.65Boddice Rob1163051MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910151611703321The Science of Sympathy2895547UNINA