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The bureaucracy of empathy : law, vivisection, and animal pain in late nineteenth-century Britain
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This volume revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues th...
This volume revolves around two central questions: What is pain? And how do we recognize, understand, and ameliorate the pain of nonhuman animals? Shira Shmuely investigates these ethical issues through a close and careful history of the origins, implementation, and enforcement of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act of Parliament, which for the first time imposed legal restrictions on animal experimentation and mandated official supervision of procedures 'calculated to give pain' to animal subjects.
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- Creator
- Shira Shmuely
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024
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- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781501770401, 1501770403, 9781501770418, 1501770411, 9781501770388
- OCLC
- on1382387272, on1417147391
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Intro -- The Bureaucracy of Empathy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One The Legal and Scientific Landscapes of the Act -- Two The Right Forms for the Job: Anesthesia, Brain Research, and Certificate E -- Three The Prick of a Needle: The Challenges of Inoculation -- Four Regulating Pain in Laboratories: The Inspectorate -- Five Libel, Slander, and Vivisection -- Conclusion: The Act in the Twentieth Century -- Postscript: "Can They Suffer?" -- Appendix I: British Cruelty to Animals Legislation and Case Law, Nineteenth Century -- Appendix II: An Act to Amend the Law Relating to Cruelty to Animals, 1876 -- Bibliography -- Index