{"product_id":"the-science-of-sympathy-9780252040580","title":"The Science of Sympathy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exemplary. Boddice demonstrates that the culture of Victorian science changed irreversibly what sympathy could mean, and how it could be felt. The book will be at the top of my list when people ask, 'What does it look like when you do the history of emotions?' This is what it looks like.\"--Daniel M. Gross, author of The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle's Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Stimulating and interesting. Boddice has taken some of the most important topics in nineteenth-century history and made them his own.\"--Joanna Bourke, author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"A landmark work in the history of science and the emotions.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Rob Boddice has provided an engaging exploration of three issues that were the source of much debate in the later Victorian period: vivisection, vaccination, and eugenics. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Science of Sympathy\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to this still-emerging body of scholarship that has brought real illumination to the scientific cultures of the nineteenth century in particular.\"--\u003ci\u003eAnnals of Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Boddice offer[s] challenging departures from Victorian evolutionary thought that reflect in rich and complex ways on the intellectual crosscurrents of Victorian culture and society, as well as the emerging contingencies of modernism.\" --\u003ci\u003eIsis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Science of Sympathy\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive achievement, stimulating, interesting, and well-written.\"--\u003ci\u003eBritish Journal for the History of Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A well-written and accessible book that clearly explains complex ideas while introducing the reader to the novel insights yielded by the study of the history of emotions . . . challenging and stimulating.\" --\u003ci\u003eVictorian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400438489431,"sku":"9780252040580","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252040580.jpg?v=1730470683","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-science-of-sympathy-9780252040580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}