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The science of sympathy : morality, evolution, and Victorian civilization /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boddice, Rob (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016].
Series:History of emotions.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882 > Influence.
Sympathy > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Ethics > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Religion and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.