| Description |
xvi, 369 pages : illustrations, portraits |
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1 online resource (xvi, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Clio medica : perspectives in medical humanities ; 93 |
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Clio medica (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 93.
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| Contents |
'Love and hatred are common to the whole sensitive creation' : animal feeling in the century before Darwin / Jane Spencer -- 'The book of the season' : the conception and reception of Darwin's Expression / Angelique Richardson -- The backbone shiver : Darwin and the arts / Gillian Beer -- Becoming an animal : Darwin and the evolution of sympathy / Paul White -- George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Darwin : animals, emotions, and morals / Angelique Richardson -- Between medicine and evolutionary theory : sympathy and other emotional investments in life writings by and about Charles Darwin / David Amigoni -- From entangled vision to ethical engagement : Darwin, affect, and contemporary exhibition projects / Monika Pietrzak-Franger -- Reckoning with the emotions : neurological responses to the theory of evolution, 1870-1930 / L.S. Jacyna -- Darwin's changing Expression and the making of the modern state / Rhodri Hayward -- Calling the wild : selection, domestication, and species / Harriet Ritvo -- The development of emotional life / Michael Lewis |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Brill platform, viewed July 26, 2023) |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Expression of the emotions in man and animals.
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| SUBJECT |
Expression of the emotions in man and animals (Darwin, Charles) fast |
| Subject |
Emotions.
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Facial expression.
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Animal behavior.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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Emotions
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Facial Expression
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Psychology, Comparative
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emotion.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
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Animal behavior
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Emotions
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Facial expression
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Psychology, Comparative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richardson, Angelique, 1970- editor.
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| LC no. |
2014412532 |
| ISBN |
9401209987 |
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9789401209984 |
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