Species of Compassion: Aesthetics, Anaesthetics, and Pain in the Physiological Laboratory
This essay explores the interplay of different species of compassion with regard to physiological practices in the final decades of the nineteenth century. Drawing on the lexicon from which ideals of late-Victorian compassion were formed, it illustrates their contested nature, demonstrating how phys...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2012-12-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
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| Online Access: | http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/628 |