Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

Stephen Coleridge (1854 - 1936)

Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often associated with PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, founded in 1980], opposition to use of live animals in physiology research dates back several centuries. Animal experimentation was particularly decried before the development of anesthesia. This book briefly describes the personal histories of twelve prominent critics of live experimentation in 19th century England. - Summary by JefferySmith

Genre(s): Animals, Medical, Modern (19th C)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Jeffery
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Play 01 The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury Jeffery
00:06:29
Play 02 Miss Frances Power Cobbe Jeffery
00:08:51
Play 03 Cardinal Manning Vice President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society Jeffery
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Play 04 Robert Browning Vice President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society Jeffery
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Play 05 Lord Coleridge Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society Jeffery
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Play 06 John Ruskin Jeffery
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Play 07 Dr. Johnson Jeffery
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Play 08 Thomas Carlyle Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society Jeffery
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Play 09 Tennyson Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society Jeffery
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Play 10 Cardinal Newman Jeffery
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Play 11 Three Great Churchmen Jeffery
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Play 12 Queen Victoria Jeffery
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Play 13 Compassed About With So Great a Cloud of Witnesses Jeffery
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