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An Introduction to History of Science and the Emotions (2016)

Dror, Otniel E. (Author)
Hitzer, Bettina (Author)
Laukötter, Anja (Author)
León Sanz, Pilar (Author)

Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-18
Publication date: 2016
Language: English

DOI: 10.1086/687590

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/687590

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This essay introduces our call for an intertwined history-of-emotions/history-of-science perspective. We argue that the history of science can greatly extend the history of emotions by proffering science qua science as a new resource for the study of emotions. We present and read science, in its multiple diversities and locations, and in its variegated activities, products, theories, and emotions, as constitutive of the norms, experiences, expressions, and regimes of emotions. Reciprocally, we call for a new reading of science in terms of emotions as an analytical category. Assuming emotions are intelligible and culturally learned, we extend the notion of emotion to include a nonintentional and noncausal “emotional style,” which is inscribed into (and can reciprocally be generated by) technologies, disease entities, laboratory models, and scientific texts. Ultimately, we argue that emotional styles interrelate with broader emotional cultures and thus can contribute to and/or challenge grand historical narratives.

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Article Otniel E. Dror (2016) Cold War “Super-Pleasure”: Insatiability, Self-Stimulation, and the Postwar Brain. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 227-249). unapi

Article Felicity Callard (2016) The Intimate Geographies of Panic Disorder: Parsing Anxiety through Psychopharmacological Dissection. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 203-226). unapi

Article Anja Laukötter (2016) How Films Entered the Classroom: The Sciences and the Emotional Education of Youth through Health Education Films in the United States and Germany, 1910–30. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 181-200). unapi

Article Eric J. Engstrom (2016) Tempering Madness: Emil Kraepelin’s Research on Affective Disorders. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 163-180). unapi

Article Dolores Martín Moruno (2016) Pain as Practice in Paolo Mantegazza’s Science of Emotions. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 137-162). unapi

Article Rafael Mandressi (2016) Affected Doctors: Dead Bodies and Affective and Professional Cultures in Early Modern European Anatomy. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 119-136). unapi

Article Anne Harrington (2016) Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 94-115). unapi

Article Bettina Hitzer; Pilar León-Sanz (2016) The Feeling Body and Its Diseases: How Cancer Went Psychosomatic in Twentieth-Century Germany. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 67-93). unapi

Article Naama Cohen-Hanegbi (2016) A Moving Soul: Emotions in Late Medieval Medicine. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 46-66). unapi

Article Damien Boquet; Piroska Nagy (2016) Medieval Sciences of Emotions during the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries: An Intellectual History. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 21-45). unapi

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