Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society /

Late nineteenth-century England witnessed the emergence of a vociferous and well-organzied movement against the use of living animals in scientific research, a protest that threatened the existence of experimental medicine. Richard D. French views the Victorian antivivisection movement as a revealin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: French, Richard D., 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Vivisection.
Medicine > Great Britain > History.
Medicine > Research > Great Britain > History.
Vivisection
Médecine > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Médecine > Recherche > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Medicine.
Medicine > Research.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Animal Experiment and Humanitarian Sentiment before 1870
  • 3. Experimental Medicine in Britain
  • 4. The Politics of Experimental Medicine
  • 5. An Act "To Reconcile the Claims of Science and Humanity"
  • 6. The Antivivisection Movement and Political Action after 1876
  • 7. The Administration of the Act and the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research
  • 8. Anatomy of an Agitation
  • 9. The Mind of Antivivisection: Medicine
  • 10. The Mind of Antivivisection: Science and Religion
  • 11. The Mind of Antivivisection: Animals
  • 12. Epilogue
  • Appendix I. Report of the Committee appointed to consider the subject of Physiological Experimentation
  • Appendix II. Extract from Dr. George Hoggan's letter to the Morning Post, 2 February 1875
  • Index

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