The Bureaucracy of Empathy : : Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain / / Shira Shmuely.

The Bureaucracy of Empathy revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
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Physical Description:1 online resource (270 p.) :; 18 b&w halftones, 1 chart
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE The Legal and Scientific Landscapes of the Act
  • TWO The Right Forms for the Job: Anesthesia, Brain Research, and Certificate E
  • THREE The Prick of a Needle: The Challenges of Inoculation
  • FOUR Regulating Pain in Laboratories: The Inspectorate
  • FIVE Libel, Slander, and Vivisection
  • Conclusion: The Act in the Twentieth 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index