Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain
Bates, A.W.H.
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / [electronic resource] : by A.W.H. Bates. - 1st ed. 2017. - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. - XXI, 217 p. online resource. - The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series . - The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series .
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.
Open Access
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 explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profession. Christian anti-cruelty organizations took up the cause out of concern that callousness among the professional classes would have a demoralizing effect on the rest of society. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the influence of transcendentalism, Eastern religions and the spiritual revival led new age social reformers to champion a more holistic approach to science, and dismiss reliance on vivisection as a materialistic oversimplification. In response, scientists claimed it was necessary to remain objective and unemotional in order to perform the experiments necessary for medical progress.
9781137556974
10.1057/978-1-137-55697-4 doi
Ethics.
Great Britain—History.
Animal welfare.
Medical ethics.
Sociology.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Sociology, general.
BJ1-1725
170
Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain A Social History / [electronic resource] : by A.W.H. Bates. - 1st ed. 2017. - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. - XXI, 217 p. online resource. - The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series . - The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series .
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.
Open Access
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 explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profession. Christian anti-cruelty organizations took up the cause out of concern that callousness among the professional classes would have a demoralizing effect on the rest of society. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the influence of transcendentalism, Eastern religions and the spiritual revival led new age social reformers to champion a more holistic approach to science, and dismiss reliance on vivisection as a materialistic oversimplification. In response, scientists claimed it was necessary to remain objective and unemotional in order to perform the experiments necessary for medical progress.
9781137556974
10.1057/978-1-137-55697-4 doi
Ethics.
Great Britain—History.
Animal welfare.
Medical ethics.
Sociology.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Sociology, general.
BJ1-1725
170