Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society / / Richard D. French.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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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