The Victorian Vivisection Debate Frances Power Cobbe, Experimental Science and the Claims of Brutes |
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| Author:
| Obenchain, Theodore G. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-7119-5 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95USD $4.00 |
Book Description:
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Is it justifiable for experimental scientists to impose a certain level of inhumanity upon live animals by subjecting them to open operations--forcing a few to suffer for the benefit of many? This work answers that question from both an historical and a personal perspective, expounding upon a debate playing out in Victorian England among experimental scientists, personified by Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.
Is it justifiable for experimental scientists to impose a certain level of inhumanity upon live animals by subjecting them to open operations--forcing a few to suffer for the benefit of many? This work answers that question from both an historical and a personal perspective, expounding upon a debate playing out in Victorian England among experimental scientists, personified by Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.