Boddice, Rob,

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.



9780252099021

2016041949


Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 --Influence.


Sympathy--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Ethics--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Religion and science--History--Great Britain--19th century.


Electronic Books.

BJ1475 / .S354 2016