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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History

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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History - Bates, A W H
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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 ...

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Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History 2017, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9781137556967

2017 edition

Hardcover