On Flinching : Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock / Tiffany Watt Smith.

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

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TextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191004353
0191004359
9781306823012
1306823013
9780191770487
0191770485

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Flinching.DDC classification:

152.3 23 22

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QP372.6 .S65 2014eb

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Contents:

Cover -- On Flinching -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Playing at Looking, Playing at Being Seen -- 1 Darwin's Flinch -- 2 Monkey F Startled -- 3 Henry Head's Wince -- 4 A Convalescent Recoils -- Afterword: A Report to the Academy -- Appendix Transcription of Ferrier's Notebooks Regarding Experiment F -- Bibliography -- Index

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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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