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 Emotion, Sense, Experience, with Mark Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Feeling Dis-Ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness (Bloomsbury, 2022), edited with Bettina Hitzer, and Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation, Emotion and Experience (Polity, 2023). He is currently writing The Power of Belief: a book about the history of the placebo effect (Reaktion, 2026).

Books:

The History of Emotions, 2nd Edition 

Knowing Pain 

Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production, 1796-1918 

Feeling Dis-Ease 

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)