| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages): illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Clio medica : perspectives in medical humanities ; 93
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 93.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Darwin and Interdisciplinarity:A Historical Perspective; 1. 'Love and Hatred are Common to the Whole Sensitive Creation': Animal Feeling in the Century before Darwin; 2. 'The Book of The Season': The Conception and Reception of Darwin's Expression; 3. The Backbone Shiver: Darwin and the Arts; 4. Becoming an Animal: Darwin and the Evolution of Sympathy; 5. George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and Morals. |
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6. Between Medicine and Evolutionary Theory: Sympathy and Other Emotional Investments in Life Writings by and about Charles Darwin7. From Entangled Vision to Ethical Engagement: Darwin, Affect, and Contemporary Exhibition Projects; 8. Reckoning with the Emotions: Neurological Responses to the Theory of Evolution, 1870-1930; 9. Darwin's Changing Expression and the Making of the Modern State; 10. Calling the Wild: Selection, Domestication, and Species; 11. The Development of Emotional Life; Afterword: The Emotional and Moral Lives of Animals: What Darwin Would Have Said; Index. |
| Summary |
'What is emotion?' pondered the young Charles Darwin in his notebooks. How were the emotions to be placed in an evolutionary framework? And what light might they shed on human-animal continuities? These were among the questions Darwin explored in his research, assisted both by an acute sense of observation and an extraordinary capacity for fellow feeling, not only with humans but with all animal life. After Darwin: Animals, Emotions, and the Mind explores questions of mind, emotion and the moral sense which Darwin opened up through his research on the physical expression of emotions and the hu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Expression of the emotions in man and animals.
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Emotions.
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Emotions. |
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Facial expression.
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Facial expression. |
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Animal behavior.
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Animal behavior. |
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Psychology, Comparative. |
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Emotions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Richardson, Angelique, 1970- editor of compilation.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: After Darwin. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2013 9789042037472 |
| ISBN |
9401209987 electronic book |
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9789401209984 electronic book |
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9042037474 |
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9789042037472 |
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