Rob Boddice specializes in the history of medicine, science, and emotions. His work delves into the intricate connections between morality, evolution, and civilization, exploring how these concepts have shaped human experience over time. Boddice's research investigates the subjective dimensions of pain and human feelings, uncovering their historical evolution and societal impact. His approach integrates interdisciplinary perspectives, examining how the production of scientific knowledge has influenced our understanding of lived experience.
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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