Rob Boddice
Biographic Data
| ID | 964252 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Boddice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Boddice |
| SIGNATURE | BODDICE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2591-9104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dor
Este artigo investiga o emaranhamento entre a história intelectual e a história experimental ao considerar a dor através das lentes da História das Emoções. Ele estabelece e justifica uma abordagem teórica para o estudo da história da dor predicada na pesquisa neurocientífica social que conecta repertórios conceituais contextualizados à forma da experiência. Em seguida ele explora mais completamente a relação entre o conhecimento a respeito da do…
Sweet Sensation
In June 1913, Dr Joshua Sweet, Assistant Professor of Surgical Research at the University of Pennsylvania, was charged with ‘unnecessary cruelty to dogs’. Sweet’s trial would take place the following April. My account of that trial, its context and its aftermath, is primarily concerned with the contested experience of ‘humanity’: a nebulous concept that incorporates other-oriented feelings and practices, couched in broader social and moral framew…
Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918
Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918
Democratic Passions
Commentary
Disaffected
Christopher Milnes. A History of Euphoria
If a history has, at the core of its argument, an unchanging human universal that transcends all periods and places, is it still a history? This is the central challenge in Christopher Milnes’s book about the perception of health. It fastens on to feelings with respect to illness and recovery that are, Milnes claims, biologically and psychologically fundamental about humans. This claim is asserted at the outset and re-asserted throughout, furnish…
Humane Professions
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He captures the rise of the professional and specialist medical scientist, whose métier was animal experimentation, and whose guiding principle was 'humanity' or the reduction of the aggregate of suffering in the world. He also…
Humane Professions
Katherine Foxhall. Migraine
This is an exemplary book, majestic in its scope, forensic in its attention to detail, and judicious in its balancing of the shifting boundaries of medical knowledge and the recovery of the experiences of migraine that medical knowledge has neglected. To track the history of a disorder over more than a thousand years, set against a working knowledge of contemporary pharmaceutical innovations and medical politics, would give all but a few scholars…
History Looks Forward
The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions of power and authority behind cultural sc…
From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect
Ruth Leys’s book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling. To most of this, Leys holds a match and allows us to stand in awe at the conflagration. In an ideal world, the psychologists would be watching too. Emotion research in psychological bowers is the heir to an epistemological inertia born of force of personality. Leys’s book is a geneal…
Jill Kirby, Feeling the Strain
At the heart of this book is a concerted attempt to recover the ‘lived experience’ of stress (p.5) in twentieth-century Britain, among men and women at work and at home, through peace, war and reconstruction. The introduction repeatedly affirms that it is the book’s intention to focus on ‘ordinary people’s perceptions’ on ‘personal experiences’ on ‘historicising the experiences’ of stress, and on ‘the everyday experience of ordinary people’ (pp.5…
Imperial Emotions
Reviewed by: Imperial Emotions: The politics of empathy across the British Empire by Jane Lydon Rob Boddice Imperial Emotions: The politics of empathy across the British Empire By Jane Lydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. There are two red herrings in the title of this book that must be addressed. First, this is not a book about “empathy”; second, it is not a book that goes “across the British Empire” in its coverage. This is a boo…
The developing brain as historical artifact
This commentary critically assesses the importance and limitations of bioconstructionist research on emotional development within the discipline of psychology, broadly conceived, finding that it depends upon theories and methodologies concerning the study of culture that the humanities can provide. The established field of the history of emotions is introduced as a means of complicating bioconstruction by highlighting the contingency of the world…
Styling Emotions History
In this article we analyze the profound impact of Peter Stearns’s pioneering work on the history of emotions over more than three decades. Stearns has influenced both the theory and the methodology of emotions historians, as well as providing a large body of work that empirically documents emotional change over time. In our assessment of Stearns’s contribution, we emphasize the ongoing political importance and scholarly relevance of this work, pa…
Pain
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
In the years immediately prior to his death, and after his first stroke, the famous vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner suffered with auditory hyperaesthesia. He considered it to be a “mechanical” fault
The History of Emotions
This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of\nemotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some\nof the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus,\nhowever, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a\nconvergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important\nobservations about the biocultural status of human beings. While t…
Vaccination, Fear and Historical Relevance
Fears about vaccination are tenacious, despite an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of immunisation and despite the potentially dangerous consequences of falling rates of immunity against once common diseases. Drawing on recent developments in the history of emotions and an extensive historiography on the history of vaccination, this article argues that fear of vaccination has become culturally idiomatic and highly resistant to fact‐based…
Civilizing Emotions
There is more than a hint of an attempt in Civilizing Emotions to follow the path laid down by Norbert Elias in his classic but hotly contested work, The Civilizing Process. But whereas Elias' focu
The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781–2004
The Horse as Cultural Icon
(2014). The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World. Edited by Peter Edwards, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Elspeth Graham. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 466-467
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain
If one knows Joanna Bourke's books, the intellectual thrust of The Story of Pain will not surprise. It is the latest in her significant corpus to stress the cultural construction of linguistic and bodily practices and their political implications. Bourke is interested always in disrupting the rhetoric of the ‘normal’, the ‘banal’ and the ‘universal’, insisting that experience is historically contingent and that discourses of normativity serve alw…
The History of Emotions
This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of\nemotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some\nof the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus,\nhowever, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a\nconvergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important\nobservations about the biocultural status of human beings. While t…
The Manly Mind? Revisiting the Victorian ‘Sex in Brain’ Debate
Historians in the 1970s and 1980s explored the ways in which Victorian science characterised and caricatured the female intellect. As a core element of debates on the extension of the franchise, and on women in higher education, the scientific literature on the mental differences between men and women has been thoroughly explored. A key part of this literature dealt with the relative weights of male and female brains, and the assertions of evolut…
Vivisecting Major
Through an investigation of the public, professional, and private life of the Darwinian disciple George John Romanes, this essay seeks a better understanding of the scientific motivations for defending the practice of vivisection at the height of the controversy in late Victorian Britain. Setting aside a historiography that has tended to focus on the arguments of antivivisectionists, it reconstructs the viewpoint of the scientific community throu…
The developing brain as historical artifact
This commentary critically assesses the importance and limitations of bioconstructionist research on emotional development within the discipline of psychology, broadly conceived, finding that it depends upon theories and methodologies concerning the study of culture that the humanities can provide. The established field of the history of emotions is introduced as a means of complicating bioconstruction by highlighting the contingency of the world…
Vaccination, Fear and Historical Relevance
Fears about vaccination are tenacious, despite an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of immunisation and despite the potentially dangerous consequences of falling rates of immunity against once common diseases. Drawing on recent developments in the history of emotions and an extensive historiography on the history of vaccination, this article argues that fear of vaccination has become culturally idiomatic and highly resistant to fact‐based…
From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect
Ruth Leys’s book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling. To most of this, Leys holds a match and allows us to stand in awe at the conflagration. In an ideal world, the psychologists would be watching too. Emotion research in psychological bowers is the heir to an epistemological inertia born of force of personality. Leys’s book is a geneal…
In loco parentis ? Public‐school authority, cricket and manly character, 1855–62
This article considers the responsibility for schoolboys’ behaviour and character when in liminal spaces between home and school, in an historical account of the annual cricket matches in London between Eton, Harrow and Winchester in the late 1850s. The episode is situated in the context of the Clarendon Commission’s discussions on school sports, parental and school authority, and ‘muscular Christianity’ in the early 1860s. Set in the conceptual …
Manliness and the“Morality of Field Sports”
This article aims to make a twofold contribution. First, it adds to the now‐flourishing field of the history of masculinity in modern Britain, asking some new questions of the category of manliness
In loco parentis ? Public‐school authority, cricket and manly character, 1855–62
This article considers the responsibility for schoolboys’ behaviour and character when in liminal spaces between home and school, in an historical account of the annual cricket matches in London between Eton, Harrow and Winchester in the late 1850s. The episode is situated in the context of the Clarendon Commission’s discussions on school sports, parental and school authority, and ‘muscular Christianity’ in the early 1860s. Set in the conceptual …
Horses at Work
Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism
The Manly Mind? Revisiting the Victorian ‘Sex in Brain’ Debate
Historians in the 1970s and 1980s explored the ways in which Victorian science characterised and caricatured the female intellect. As a core element of debates on the extension of the franchise, and on women in higher education, the scientific literature on the mental differences between men and women has been thoroughly explored. A key part of this literature dealt with the relative weights of male and female brains, and the assertions of evolut…
Vivisecting Major
Through an investigation of the public, professional, and private life of the Darwinian disciple George John Romanes, this essay seeks a better understanding of the scientific motivations for defending the practice of vivisection at the height of the controversy in late Victorian Britain. Setting aside a historiography that has tended to focus on the arguments of antivivisectionists, it reconstructs the viewpoint of the scientific community throu…
The Quest for Mental Health
"The Quest for Mental Health: A Tale of Science, Medicine, Scandal, Sorrow, and Mass Society, by Ian Dowbiggin.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(3), pp. 718–719
The Horse as Cultural Icon
(2014). The Horse as Cultural Icon: The Real and the Symbolic Horse in the Early Modern World. Edited by Peter Edwards, Karl A.E. Enenkel and Elspeth Graham. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 466-467
Joanna Bourke, The Story of Pain
If one knows Joanna Bourke's books, the intellectual thrust of The Story of Pain will not surprise. It is the latest in her significant corpus to stress the cultural construction of linguistic and bodily practices and their political implications. Bourke is interested always in disrupting the rhetoric of the ‘normal’, the ‘banal’ and the ‘universal’, insisting that experience is historically contingent and that discourses of normativity serve alw…
The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781–2004
Vaccination, Fear and Historical Relevance
Fears about vaccination are tenacious, despite an overwhelming weight of evidence in favour of immunisation and despite the potentially dangerous consequences of falling rates of immunity against once common diseases. Drawing on recent developments in the history of emotions and an extensive historiography on the history of vaccination, this article argues that fear of vaccination has become culturally idiomatic and highly resistant to fact‐based…
Civilizing Emotions
There is more than a hint of an attempt in Civilizing Emotions to follow the path laid down by Norbert Elias in his classic but hotly contested work, The Civilizing Process. But whereas Elias' focu
Pain
A Cultural History of the Senses in the Age of Empire
In the years immediately prior to his death, and after his first stroke, the famous vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner suffered with auditory hyperaesthesia. He considered it to be a “mechanical” fault
The History of Emotions
This article briefly appraises the state of the art in the history of\nemotions, looking to its theoretical and methodological underpinnings and some\nof the notable scholarship in the contemporary field. The predominant focus,\nhowever, lies on the future direction of the history of emotions, based on a\nconvergence of the humanities and neurosciences, and according to important\nobservations about the biocultural status of human beings. While t…
Styling Emotions History
In this article we analyze the profound impact of Peter Stearns’s pioneering work on the history of emotions over more than three decades. Stearns has influenced both the theory and the methodology of emotions historians, as well as providing a large body of work that empirically documents emotional change over time. In our assessment of Stearns’s contribution, we emphasize the ongoing political importance and scholarly relevance of this work, pa…
The developing brain as historical artifact
This commentary critically assesses the importance and limitations of bioconstructionist research on emotional development within the discipline of psychology, broadly conceived, finding that it depends upon theories and methodologies concerning the study of culture that the humanities can provide. The established field of the history of emotions is introduced as a means of complicating bioconstruction by highlighting the contingency of the world…
History Looks Forward
The history of emotions has become a thriving focus within the discipline of history, but it has in the process gained a critical purchase that makes it relevant for other disciplines concerned with emotion research. The history of emotions is entangled with the history of the body and brain, and with cultural and political history. It is interested in the how and why of emotion change; with the questions of power and authority behind cultural sc…
From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The Ascent of Affect
Ruth Leys’s book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling. To most of this, Leys holds a match and allows us to stand in awe at the conflagration. In an ideal world, the psychologists would be watching too. Emotion research in psychological bowers is the heir to an epistemological inertia born of force of personality. Leys’s book is a geneal…
Jill Kirby, Feeling the Strain
At the heart of this book is a concerted attempt to recover the ‘lived experience’ of stress (p.5) in twentieth-century Britain, among men and women at work and at home, through peace, war and reconstruction. The introduction repeatedly affirms that it is the book’s intention to focus on ‘ordinary people’s perceptions’ on ‘personal experiences’ on ‘historicising the experiences’ of stress, and on ‘the everyday experience of ordinary people’ (pp.5…
Imperial Emotions
Reviewed by: Imperial Emotions: The politics of empathy across the British Empire by Jane Lydon Rob Boddice Imperial Emotions: The politics of empathy across the British Empire By Jane Lydon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. There are two red herrings in the title of this book that must be addressed. First, this is not a book about “empathy”; second, it is not a book that goes “across the British Empire” in its coverage. This is a boo…
Humane Professions
In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He captures the rise of the professional and specialist medical scientist, whose métier was animal experimentation, and whose guiding principle was 'humanity' or the reduction of the aggregate of suffering in the world. He also…
Humane Professions
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · History of Science and Medicine (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · History of Emotions Research (9 works) · Politics (9 works)