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On Flinching : Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock /
While the end of the 19th century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject. 'On Flinching' focuses on moments in which scie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- On Flinching
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Playing at Looking, Playing at Being Seen
- 1 Darwin's Flinch
- 2 Monkey F Startled
- 3 Henry Head's Wince
- 4 A Convalescent Recoils
- Afterword: A Report to the Academy
- Appendix Transcription of Ferrier's Notebooks Regarding Experiment F
- Bibliography
- Index