Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History /

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History /

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explain...

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Main Author: Bates, A.W.H (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series,
Subjects:
Ethics.
Great Britain > History.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethics.
Sociology.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Animal Ethics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Vivisection, virtue, and the law in the nineteenth century.- Chapter 2. Have animals souls?.-  Chapter 3. A new age for a new century
  • Chapter 4. The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital, 1902-1935.- Chapter 5. The Research Defence Society
  • Chapter 6. State control, bureaucracy, and the national interest from the Second World War to the 1960s
  • Conclusion.

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