Introduction: Emotional Returns
Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross
PART ONE Neuroscience
1 Humanists and the Experimental Study of Emotion
WILLIAM M. REDDY
2 “Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula”: Mirror-Neuron Theory and Emotional Empathy
RUTH LEYS
3 Emotion Science and the Heart of a Two-Cultures Problem
DANIEL M. GROSS AND STEPHANIE D. PRESTON
PART TWO Medicine
4 What Is an Excitement?
Otniel E. Dror
5 The Science of Pain and Pleasure in the Shadow of the Holocaust
CATHY GERE
6 Oncomotions: Experience and Debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945
Bettina Hitzer
PART THREE Psychiatry
7 The Concept of Panic: Military Psychiatry and Emotional Preparation for Nuclear War in Postwar West Germany
Frank Biess
8 Preventing the Inevitable: John Appel and the Problem of Psychiatric Casualties in the US Army during World War II
Rebecca Jo Plant
9 Feeling for the Protest Faster: How the Self-Starving Body Influences Social Movements and Global Medical Ethics
Nayan B. Shah
PART FOUR Social Sciences
10 Across Different Cultures? Emotions in Science during the Early Twentieth Century
Uffa Jensen
11 Decolonizing Emotions: The Management of Feeling in the New World Order
JORDANNA BAILKIN
12 Passions, Preferences, and Animal Spirits: How Does Homo Oeconomicus Cope with Emotions?
UTE FREVERT
13 The Transatlantic Element in the Sociology of Emotions
HELENA FLAM
14 Feminist Theories and the Science of Emotion
CATHERINE LUTZ
15 Affect, Trauma, and Daily Life: Transatlantic Legal and Medical Responses to Bullying and Intimidation
RODDEY REID
Coda: Erasures; Writing History about Holocaust Trauma
Carolyn J. Dean
List of Contributors
Index