Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society / / Richard D. French.

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• VerfasserIn: French, Richard D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5494
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

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 revealing case study in the attitude of modern society toward science.The author draws on popular pamphlets and newspaper accounts to recreate the structure, tactics, ideology, and personalities of the early antivivisection movement. He argues that at the heart of the antivivisection movement was public concern over the emergence of science and medicine as leading institutions of Victorian society--a concern, he suggests, that has its own contemporary counterparts.In addition to providing a social and cultural history of the Victorian antivivisection movement, the book sheds light on many related areas, including Victorian political and administrative history, the political sociology of scientific communities, social reform and voluntary associations, the psychoanalysis of human attitudes toward animals, and Victorian feminism.Richard D. French is a Science Advisor with the Science Council of Canada.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

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