Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society / Richard D. French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Richard D., author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vivisection.

Medicine--Great Britain--History.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; London : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691198446

0691198446

OCLC:

1089728363