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authorHolden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>2020-09-21 16:29:25 -0400
committerHolden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>2020-09-21 16:29:25 -0400
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Support of laboratory medicine correlates strongly with feelings about
vivisection.
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+Lecture
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+Dogs used for vivisection because they are docile and like humans.
+- Traces its role into modern medical profession in conduct, education
+
+Paradox between rationality (cool indifferenc to suffering) and
+caring/sympathy/bedside-manner/compassion.
+ - Dr. Watson & Holmes and Prendick & Dr. Moreau represent this
+ paradox as separate people
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+The Case Against Vivisection
+- Feminists and socialists wanted good treatment of disempowered humans
+- Upper class wants to control underclass and prevent "taste for blood"
+ - Corresponds to Dr. Moreau's fear of "taste for flesh"
+- Progress & motive as proper justifications of cruelty
+ - Dr. Moreau's negligence of pain corresponds to this
+
+Vivisectionists and Anti-vivisectionists continued to battle out in the
+legal system throughout the 19th century, but little changed in terms of
+public opinion and physicians' ability to vivisect.