Rob Boddice (PhD, FRHistS) is a Senior Researcher at HEX, Tampere, Finland. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, McGill University, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Freie Universität Berlin, and has been funded extensively by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Horizon2020 programmes of the European Commission. Boddice has published widely 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), Pain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), The History of Emotions (Manchester University Press, 2018), and A History of FeelRob Boddice (PhD, FRHistS) is a Senior Researcher at HEX, Tampere, Finland. He has previously held positions at Harvard University, McGill University, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and Freie Universität Berlin, and has been funded extensively by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Horizon2020 programmes of the European Commission. Boddice has published widely 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), Pain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), The History of Emotions (Manchester University Press, 2018), and A History of Feelings (Reaktion, 2019). With Mark Smith he has written Emotion, Sense, Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and his Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914 (Cambridge University Press) will be published in 2021. Boddice serves on the editorial board of the history-of-emotions book series at Bloomsbury Academic, and on the editorial board of Emotion Review. At HEX he is beginning an experiential history of placebo and completing a four-volume set on scientific knowledge production in the long nineteenth century called Experiment, Expertise, Experience (Routledge, 2022)....more