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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies
Victorians were obsessed with animals and used them pervasively in fiction and press as proxies for human races. This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine ...
Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill
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Medicine, Crime and Realism in Ouida’s ‘Toxin’ (1895)
In 1895, Ouida published a short story called ‘Toxin’ in the Illustrated London News which prompted an outraged response from the British medical establishment.
Louise Benson James
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The experience of biology, agriculture and health students at the Universidade Católica Dom Bosco regarding the use of animals in class practice [PDF]
The controversy arising in connection with the use of animals in practical classes has led to serious ethical discussions at universities in Brazil and around the world.
Adriana Odalia Rímoli +1 more
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The anatomical-surgical and engraving instruments of the Danzig physician Christoph Gottwald
Christoph Gottwald (1636–1700) was one of the most important Danzig doctors and collectors to live in the 17th century. Gottwald was a graduate of Leiden University and a student of Frans de la Boë, known as Sylvius, becoming a doctor of medicine and ...
Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
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Literature affords important insights into the impact of medical discoveries, and this essay discusses two late-Victorian novels that focus on the epistemological and ethical problems generated by medicine’s scientization: Edward Berdoe’s St Bernard’s ...
Adrian Tait
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Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation*
Abstract This article examines surviving manuscript petitions to reveal the material culture of political organisation. Conceptually, the article frames the material culture of petitions and the practices associated with petitioning as a technology that enabled political activity.
Henry Miller
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Ibn Tufail as a SciArtist in the Treatise of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan [PDF]
Ibn Tufail as a scientist as well as an artist exposes the issues of human anatomy, autopsy, and vivisection and, thereby, could be regarded as a SciArtist. SciArt might be defined as a reciprocal relation between art and science.
Nadia Maftouni
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On February 23rd, 2016 the Appellate Court of Brescia confirmed the conviction of three people, the president of Green Hill 2001 srl, a big factory of beagles used for vivisection, the director and the veterinary of the structure.
Carla Campanaro
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Vivisection au ralenti: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega [PDF]
Reading a Don DeLillo is like walking on glass, that is, you need hold your breath so that nothing could deter you from focusing on the mission, if you want to keep safe and mostly sound.
Ruxanda BONTILĂ
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Abstract What do Charles Darwin, T.H. Huxley, August Krogh and Charles Sherrington have in common? Florence Buchanan – a name history has unjustly dimmed but never erased. Her academic lineage is a direct thread through the titans of biology: E. Ray Lankester mentored her after being shaped by Huxley, Darwin's celebrated protégé.
Brian C. Clark
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