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Science and emotions after 1945 : a transatlantic perspective /

This volume seeks to provide greater historical depth to the current fascination with emotions across a wide range of academic disciplines. A central claim of the book is that the relatively recent (1990s and 2000s) neuroscientific study of emotion did not initiate - but instead consolidated - the e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Biess, Frank, 1966- (Editor ), Gross, Daniel M., 1965- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Humanists and the experimental study of emotion / William M. Reddy
  • "Both of us disgusted in my insula" : mirror neuron theory and emotional empathy / Ruth Leys
  • Emotion science and the heart of a two-cultures problem / Daniel M. Gross and Stephanie Preston
  • What is an excitement? / Otniel E. Dror
  • The science of pain and pleasure in the shadow of the Holocaust / Cathy Gere
  • Oncomotions : experience and debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945 / Bettina Hitzer
  • The concept of panic : military psychiatry and emotional preparation for nuclear war in postwar West Germany / Frank Biess
  • Preventing the inevitable : military psychiatry and the origins of limited tours of duty in the US Army during World War II / Rebecca Jo Plant
  • Feeling for the protest faster : how the self-starving body influences social movements and global medical ethics / Nayan B. Shah
  • Across different cultures' emotions in science during the early twentieth century / Uffa Jensen
  • Decolonizing emotion : the management of feeling in the new world order / Jordanna Bailkin
  • Passions, preferences, and animal spirits : how does homo oeconomicus cope with emotions? / Ute Frevert
  • The transatlantic element in the sociology of emotions / Helena Flam
  • Feminist theories and the science of emotion / Catherine Lutz
  • Affect, trauma, and daily life : transatlantic legal and medical responses to bullying and intimidation / Roddey Reid
  • Coda, on historiography erasures : writing history about Holocaust trauma / Carolyn J. Dean.