"Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early-Modern Europe" - Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon

Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon 

Javier Moscoso discusses his contribution to the volume Pain and Emotion in Modern History (Palgrave, 2014) entitled “Exquisite and Lingering Pains: Facing Cancer in Early-Modern Europe.”

Moscoso was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of History of Science at Harvard before becoming research professor of history and philosophy of science at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His most recent book, Pain: A Cultural History (Palgrave, 2012), was internationally acclaimed, and he has since turned his attention to the passions of ambition, jealousy, envy and resentment. This salon discussion of his published piece will serve as a springboard for a broader discussion of (early) modern passions.

Javier Moscoso’s public lecture, "The Moral Treatment of Ambition: Passions, Politics and Mental Illness in the Early 19th Century," is Thursday, April 7 at 6 pm.   

For advance readings, please contact:

Tili Boon Cuillé
Co-coordinator of the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Salon
tbcuille@wustl.edu