TY - BOOK AU - Bates,A.W.H. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History T2 - The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series SN - 9781137556974 AV - BJ1-1725 U1 - 170 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Ethics KW - Great Britain—History KW - Animal welfare KW - Medical ethics KW - Sociology KW - Moral Philosophy KW - History of Britain and Ireland KW - Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics KW - Theory of Medicine/Bioethics KW - Sociology, general N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55697-4 ER -