Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine, 1876-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108490092)

In this compelling history of the co-ordinated, transnational defence of medical experimentation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Rob Boddice explores the experience of vivisection as humanitarian practice. He captures the rise of the professional and specialist medical scientist, whose m tier was animal experimentation, and whose guiding principle was 'humanity' or the reduction of the aggregate of suffering in the world. He also highlights the rhetorical rehearsal of scientific practices as humane and humanitarian, and connects these often defensive professions to meaningful changes in the experience of doing science. Humane Professions examines the strategies employed by the medical establishment to try to cement an idea in the public consciousness: that the blood spilt in medical laboratories served a far-reaching human good.

Author: Rob Boddice
ISBN-10: 1108490093
ISBN-13: 9781108490092
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2021
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2022