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.
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.
