Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. NTRODUCTION. Emotional Returns 1
4. PART ONE. Neuroscience
5. 1. Humanists and the Experimental Study of Emotion 41
6. 2. “Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula”: Mirror-Neuron Theory and Emotional Empathy 67
7. 3. Emotion Science and the Heart of a Two-Cultures Problem 96
8. PART TWO. Medicine
9. 4. What Is an Excitement? 121
10. 5. The Science of Pain and Pleasure in the Shadow of the Holocaust 139
11. 6. Oncomotions: Experience and Debates in West Germany and the United States after 1945 157
12. PART THREE. Psychiatry
13. 7. The Concept of Panic: Military Psychiatry and Emotional Preparation for Nuclear War in Postwar West Germany 181
14. 8. Preventing the Inevitable: John Appel and the Problem of Psychiatric Casualties in the US Army during World War II 209
15. 9. Feeling for the Protest Faster: How the Self-Starving Body Influences Social Movements and Global Medical Ethics 239
16. PART FOUR. Social Sciences
17. 10. Across Different Cultures? Emotions in Science during the Early Twentieth Century 263
18. 11. Decolonizing Emotions: The Management of Feeling in the New World Order 278
19. 12. Passions, Preferences, and Animal Spirits: How Does Homo Oeconomicus Cope with Emotions? 300
20. 13. The Transatlantic Element in the Sociology of Emotions 318
21. 14. Feminist Theories and the Science of Emotion 342
22. 15. Affect, Trauma, and Daily Life: Transatlantic Legal and Medical Responses to Bullying and Intimidation 365
23. Coda: Erasures; Writing History about Holocaust Trauma 387
24. Contributors 415
25. Index 419