Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

A.W.H. Bates is a Coroner’s Pathologist, Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. His other books include Emblematic Monsters (2005) and The Anatomy of Robert Knox (2010).

• 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.