This article explores how historians of emotions and historians of the senses can collaborate to write a history of emotional experience that takes seriously the corporeality of emotions. It investigates how smell, feelings of disgust, and the moral judgments associated with these feelings were interrelated in 20th-century German cancer history. It demonstrates that this complex decisively shaped the emotional experiences of cancer patients. Uncovering this dynamic is only possible by conjoining the history of emotions with a more expanded version of the history of the senses. The combination reveals that the “odor of disgust” was not an ahistorical constant, but was, both in its parts and as a whole, subject to considerable shifts.

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厌恶的气味：考虑20世纪癌症历史的阴暗面

本文探讨了情感的历史学家和感官的历史学家如何合作编写情感经历的历史，这种经历严重重视了情感的物质性。它研究了气味，厌恶感以及与这些感觉相关的道德判断在20世纪德国癌症史中是如何相互联系的。它表明这种复合物决定性地影响了癌症患者的情感体验。只有将情感历史与感官历史的扩展版本结合起来，才能发现这种动态。这种结合表明，“恶心的气味”不是一个历史性的常数，而是无论从整体上还是从整体上来看，都有很大的变化。