@article{9781137556967,
      recid = {807275},
      author = {Bates, A. W. H.},
      title = {Anti-vivisection and the profession of medicine in Britain  : a social history.},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, },
      number = {9781137556967},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/807275},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55697-4},
}