Robert Boddice

Rob Boddice (PhD, FRHistS) joined HEX in 2020. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, McGill University, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Freie Universität Berlin. Boddice has published extensively in the history of medicine, the history of science and the history of emotions. His recent books include The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (University of Illinois Press, 2016), The History of Emotions (Manchester University Press, 2018), A History of Feelings (Reaktion, 2019), Emotion, Sense, Experience, with Mark Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Feeling Dis-Ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness (Bloomsbury), edited with Bettina Hitzer, will be published in 2022. He is currently writing Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion and Experience (Polity, 2022) and completing a four-volume set on scientific knowledge production in the long nineteenth century called Experiment, Expertise, Experience (Routledge, 2023).

Books:

Humane Professions

Emotion, Sense, Experience

Die Geschichte der Gefuehle

A History of Feelings

The History of Emotions

Pain: A Very Short Introduction

The Science of Sympathy

Edward Jenner

Pain and Emotion in Modern History

Anthropocentrism 

A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals

Journal Special Issue:

'The History of Emotions', Emotion Review , 12:3 (2020)