Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society (eBook)

Richard D. French (Autor)

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2019
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19844-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abdominal surgery • abolitionism • anesthesia • anesthetic • animal rights • Anna Kingsford • Anthrax • Anthropomorphism • Anti-Corn Law League • anti-intellectualism • Antiscience • antiseptic • Antitoxin • apothecary • Assistant medical officer • british institution • British Medical Association • Charles Darwin • Charles Dickens • chartism • Chemotherapy • clinical research • clinical trial • Complication (medicine) • Contagious Diseases Acts • cruelty to animals • Death • DEPT (medicine) • diphtheria • Disenchantment • Disinfectant • Dissection • Doctor–patient relationship • Epilepsy • Frances Power Cobbe • General Medical Council • Germ theory of disease • homeopathy • Hospital • Hospital Authority • immunization • immunology • inoculation • Iron Law of Oligarchy • James Blundell (physician) • Joseph Lister • medical education • Medical Ethics • Medical History • Medical jurisprudence • Medical literature • Medical Research • medical school • Monomania • National Anti-Vivisection Society • Natural Theology • New York Academy of Medicine • Obstetrics • Ophthalmology • Pasteur Institute • Pathology • pharmaceutical drug • pharmacology • Physician • Physiology • Processing (Chinese materia medica) • Psychoanalysis • Psychohistory (fictional) • Public Health • Public morality • Relationship between religion and science • Royal College of Physicians • Royal College of Surgeons • Royal Commission • Royal Humane Society • Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals • Scientism • Smallpox • Stephen Paget • Surgery • Tetanus • The Illustrated London News • The Island of Doctor Moreau • The Physician • The Physiological Society • The Politician (book) • Therapeutic nihilism • Thomas Henry Huxley • torture chamber • Toxicology • Tuberculosis • Utilitarianism • Vaccination • Vaccine • Victorian Era • Vivisection • war • Water fluoridation controversy • William Edward Forster • william paley
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19844-6 / 0691198446
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19844-6 / 9780691198446