Rob Boddice (PhD, FRHistS), is Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University. Boddice has published extensively in the fields of history of medicine, history of science and the history of emotions. His recent books include A History of Feelings (Reaktion, 2019), The History of Emotions (Manchester University Press, 2018), Pain: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford University Press, 2017), The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (University of Illinois Press, 2016), and (as editor), Pain and Emotion in Modern History (Palgrave, 2014). In 2020 he will take up a position as University Researcher at the Centre for the History of Experience at Tampere University, Finland. He has two forthcoming books with Cambridge University Press: Emotion, Sense, Experience (with Mark Smith), and Heart Work: Defending Experimental Medicine in an Age of Progress.