Article ID: CBB613328251

Pain as Practice in Paolo Mantegazza’s Science of Emotions (2016)

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Paolo Mantegazza’s science of emotions represents the dominant style of thinking that was fostered by the late nineteenth-century Italian scientific community, a positivist school that believed that the dissemination of Darwin’s evolutionary ideas would promote social progress in that country. Within this collective thought, Mantegazza was committed not only to studying the physiological experience of pain by means of vivisection but also to completing an anthropological study that examined the differences between the expressions of suffering in primitive and civilized cultures. Thus, the meaning of pain appears throughout Mantegazza’s research as a result of applying an ensemble of scientific practices integral to observation, experimentation, and the scientific self, which enabled its main physiological and psychological manifestations to be reproduced in the laboratory. Among these practices, photography allowed Mantegazza to mobilize pain as an emotion whose performativity shaped national identities, such as those that embodied the recently created Italian state.

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Article Otniel E. Dror; Bettina Hitzer; Anja Laukötter; Pilar León-Sanz (2016) An Introduction to History of Science and the Emotions. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-18). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Boddice, Rob
Berkowitz, Carin
B. Pichel
Shmuely, Shira Dina
Lisa Lafontaine
Holmes, Tarquin
Concepts
Physiology
Vivisection
Emotions; passions
Pain
Anatomy
Photography
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Renaissance
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
Italy
France
England
United States
Europe
Institutions
Royal Commission on Vivisection (1875)
University History Museum of the University of Pavia (Italy)
Turin. Università
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
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