On flinching : theatricality and scientific looking from Darwin to shell shock / Tiffany Watt Smith

Author:: Watt Smith, Tiffany
Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Darwin's Flinch -- 2.Monkey F Startled -- 3.Henry Head's Wince -- 4.A Convalescent Recoils.

Summary:

While the end of the 19th century is often associated with the rise of objectivity and its ideal of a restrained observer, scientific experiments continued to create emotional, even theatrical, relationships between scientist and his subject. 'On Flinching' focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate andgestured looking in the laboratory and beyond.

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9780191770487 (ebook)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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