Rob Boddice est spécialisé dans l'histoire de la médecine, de la science et des émotions. Son travail explore les liens complexes entre moralité, évolution et civilisation, examinant comment ces concepts ont façonné l'expérience humaine au fil du temps. Les recherches de Boddice analysent les dimensions subjectives de la douleur et des sentiments humains, en dévoilant leur évolution historique et leur impact sociétal. Son approche intègre des perspectives interdisciplinaires, étudiant comment la production de connaissances scientifiques a influencé notre compréhension de l'expérience vécue.
Fully revised and updated, The history of emotions is the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the theories, methods, achievements, and problems in this field of historical inquiry and its intersections with other disciplines.It emphasises the importance of this kind of historical work for general understandings of the meaning of human experience.
A call for historians of emotions and the senses to converge on a new history of experience. Unpicking some assumptions about affective and sensory experience, the human being is re-imagined as both biocultural and historical, reclaiming the analysis of human experience from biology and psychology and seeking new collaborative efforts.
enlightening, easy to read ... This book is a must read for anyone who thinks they have accessed everything they need to on the topic of pain. Ibadete Fetahu, Nursing Times
A concise history of one of the most important figures in history: the father of modern medicine and inventor of vaccines
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