The heart is the most symbolic organ of the human body, but it is the brain that is now commonly associated with emotion. Why then do emotional meanings ofthe heart linger? Matters of the Heart traces how emotions have been understood historically, addressing the shifting relationship from heart to brain as competing centres of emotion. INDICE: Introduction: The Heart of the Matter: Emotion, Modernity and the Self; 1: Humours to Hormones: Emotion and the Heart in History; 2: Hunter'sHeart: Pathological Anatomy and the Science of Disease; 3: From Morbid Anatomy to New Technologies: Constructing the Heart of Disease; 4: Angina Pectoris and the Arnold Family; 5: 'Heart Latham' and Nineteenth-Century Medical Practice.; 6: The Heart of Harriet Martineau: Symptoms, Subjectivity and Self-Fashioning; 7: Emotions and the Brain: Rethinking the Mind/Body Relationship; Conclusion: The Matter of the Heart.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954097-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés