The science of sympathy : morality, evolution, and Victorian civilization /
Rob Boddice.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- History of emotions .
Includes bibliographies 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.