Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Bodies of Evidence: Experimentation and Philosophical Debate in Premodern Europe
Chapter 2. Animals, Machines, and Morals
Chapter 3. Disrupting God's Plan
Chapter 4. Cruelty and Kindness
Chapter 5. The Microbe Hunters
Chapter 6. Polio and Primates
Chapter 7. From Nuremberg to CRISPR: New Rules and New Sciences
Conclusion
Suggested Further Reading
Notes
Index

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Examining the ideas and attitudes that encourage scientists to experiment on living creatures, what their justifications are, and how these have changed over time.

About the Author

Anita Guerrini is the Horning Professor in the Humanities Emerita at Oregon State University and a research professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of The Courtiers' Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris.

Reviews

I was impressed by Guerrini's vast knowledge of the historical development of biomedical science, including the events that matter to ethical issues around use of animal and human subjects in research.
—Perspectives in Science and Christian Faith

...a valuable, insightful, and useful book, covering a vast time span and a weighty theme.
—Journal of the History of Biology