On Flinching
Subtitle: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell-Shock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 17, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780198700937
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell-Shock