Vivisection in historical perspective

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Vivisection in historical perspective

edited by Nicolaas A. Rupke

(The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine)

Routledge, 1990, c1987

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Includes bibliographies and index

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This book examines the debate over vivisection over the past century in detail, placing it in the context of the wider conflict of the value of modern scientific research. This book should be of interest to social history, history of medicine, history of science and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Experimental Physiology and the Vivisection Dilemma 2. Animal Experimentation from Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Attitudes and Arguments Andreas-Holger Maehle and Ulrich Trohler 3. Vivisection and the Emergence of Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-century France Paul Elliott 4. Marshall Hall (1790-1857): Vivisection and the Development of Experimental Physiology Diana Manuel 5. Moritz Schiff (1823-96): Experimental Physiology and Noble Sentiment in Florence Patrizia Guarnieri 6. Vicarious Suffering, Necessary Pain: Physiological Method in Late Nineteenth-century Britain Stewart Richards Vivisection Debates in National Context 7. Anti-vivisection in Nineteenth-century Germany and Switzerland: Motives and Methods Ulrich Trohler and Andreas-Holger Maehle 8. Pro-vivisection in England in the Early 1880s: Arguments and Motives Nicolaas Rupke 9. The Vivisection Debate in Sweden in the 1880s Lennart Bromander 10. The Controversy over Animal Experimentation in America, 1880-1914 Susan E. Lederer Special Aspects of the Vivisection Controversy 11. Women and Anti-vivisection in Victorian England, 1870-1900 Mary Ann Elston 12. Cinema Verite?: The Image of William Harvey's Experiments in 1928 Christopher Lawrence 13. Legislation: A Practical Solution to the Vivisection Dilemma? Judith Hampson 14. A Select Iconography of Animal Experiment William Schupbach 15. Epilogue Sir William Paton.

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