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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2021
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)

open access: yesHumanities
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]

open access: yesBiotemas, 2005
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

open access: yesKlio, 2020
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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Medical (Mal)Practice and the Illusion of Progress in Edward Berdoe’s St Bernard’s: The Romance of a Medical Student and Leonard Graham’s The Professor’s Wife: A Genealogical Analysis of Epistemological and Ethical Arguments in Two Late-Victorian Novels

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2019
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*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 16-32, February 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Ibn Tufail as a SciArtist in the Treatise of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017
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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Ruling issued by the Appellate Court of Brescia and another conviction for the president, the director and the veterinarian of Green Hill for mistreatment and killing

open access: yesDerecho Animal, 2017
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]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2014
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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Blue plaque review series: Dr. Florence Buchanan: A trailblazing physiologist in an era of barriers and breakthroughs

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, Volume 110, Issue 9, Page 1203-1216, September 1, 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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