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The bureaucracy of empathy : law, vivisection, and animal pain in late nineteenth-century Britain /

"This book examines the implementation of the British Cruelty to Animals Act (1876) in its first three decades and analyzes how civil servants and scientists understood and co-constructed conceptions of animal pain"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shmuely, Shira, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Colección:Corpus juris (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The legal and scientific landscapes of the Act
  • The right forms for the job : anesthesia, brain research, and Certificate E
  • The prick of a needle : the challenges of inoculation
  • Regulating pain in laboratories : the inspectorate
  • Libel, slander, and vivisection
  • Conclusion: The Act in the 20th century
  • Postscript: "Can they suffer?"
  • Appendix I: British cruelty to animals legislation and case law, nineteenth century
  • Appendix II: An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Cruelty to Animals, 1876.