Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society (Princeton Legacy Library, 5492)

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. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page v) List of Figures and Tables (page xi) List of Abbreviations (page xiii) 1. Introduction (page 3) 2. Animal Experiment and Humanitarian Sentiment before 1870 (page 15) 3. Experimental Medicine in Britain (page 36) 4. The Politics of Experimental Medicine (page 61) 5. An Act "To Reconcile the Claims of Science and Humanity" (page 112) 6. The Antivivisection Movement and Political Action after 1876 (page 159) 7. The Administration of the Act and the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research (page 177) 8. Anatomy of an Agitation (page 220) 9. The Mind of Antivivisection: Medicine (page 288) 10. The Mind of Antivivisection: Science and Religion (page 345) 11. The Mind of Antivivisection: Animals (page 373) 12. Epilogue (page 392) Index (page 416) The book description for the previously published "Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society" is not yet available.