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 …

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 …

Abstract The Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 was an important but ambiguous piece of
legislation. For researchers it stymied British science, yet ensured that vivisection could …

One of the primary aims of late nineteenth-century laboratory experimentation was to ground
understandings of illness and disease within new regimes of science. It was also hoped that …

IN was 1894, the recognized when Frances leader Power of the Cobbe anti-vivisection
published organization her autobiography, the Victoria she was the recognized leader of the …

The latest collection in the History of Feminism series brings together a range of documents
from the nineteenth-century vivisection controversy, allowing students and researchers to …

In August 1829 the Society of Apothecaries passed a resolution enjoining candidates for its
licence to apply themselves to the study of forensic medicine. The following year, the Society …

WHY has some knowledge been accepted by the medical community and other knowledge
rejected? Most historians of medicine have assumed that knowledge-claims are eventually …

The history of research on the dead is an ignominious one, linking a long legacy of body
snatching—the historical practice of digging up freshly interned corpses from their graves …

As I will show, both the nature of Moreau's research and the style of his 'explanation'to
Prendick ally him to the great physiologists of the nineteenth century. It is only a subtle …