Alberti Fay Bound
Department of History, Queen Mary University of London, London 1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Isis. 2009 Dec;100(4):798-810. doi: 10.1086/652020.
The histories of emotion address many fundamental themes of science and medicine. These include the ways the body and its workings have been historically observed and measured, the rise of the mind sciences, and the anthropological analyses by which "ways of knowing" are culturally situated. Yet such histories bring their own challenges, not least in how historians of science and medicine view the relationship between bodies, minds, and emotions. This essay explores some of the methodological challenges of emotion history, using the sudden death of the surgeon John Hunter from cardiac disease as a case study. It argues that we need to let go of many of our modem assumptions about the origin of emotions, and "brainhood", that dominate discussions of identity, in order to explore the historical meanings of emotions as products of the body as well as the mind.
情感史涉及科学和医学的许多基本主题。其中包括身体及其运作方式在历史上是如何被观察和测量的，心智科学的兴起，以及通过人类学分析将“认知方式”置于文化背景之中。然而，这样的历史也带来了自身的挑战，尤其是在科学和医学史学家如何看待身体、心智和情感之间的关系方面。本文以外科医生约翰·亨特因心脏病突然死亡为例，探讨情感史的一些方法论挑战。文章认为，为了探究情感作为身体和心智产物的历史意义，我们需要摒弃许多关于情感起源和“脑性”的现代假设，这些假设主导了关于身份认同的讨论。
