IN PITY AND IN ANGER: A Study of the Use of Animals In Science

by John Vyvyan
introd. by Tom Regan

pbk. 180 pgs

Description

A readable account of the beginnings of animal research in the 19th century, of the Anti-Vivisection movement that arose to oppose it, and of the passionate people and amazing women who founded the Anti-Vivisection movement. The author was an archeologist, a Shakespearean scholar, and a lover of science.

ISBN 0-916288-21-8

Reviews

"The indignation and emotion which drive us on, the moral strength which enables us to continue, we have in common with those early reformers."

Bernard Unti, The AV

"...well worth reading and, by reprinting this book, Micah Publications has done a service to those interested in the animal-research issue....Kalechofsky reports that Vyvyan died sure of two things: that the antivivisection movement would intensify and so would the opposition to it. Not only was he a skillful author, he was also an able prophet."

Andrew Rowan, Anthrozoos, Vol ii, number 3, March, 1989

By contrast: "The book is rated as acceptable if one wants glimpses of the antivivisecton movement, its classic arguments, and examples of past abuses for discussion.

The American Association for The Advancement of Science, Vol 25, 33, Jan/Feb, 1990

IN PITY AND IN ANGER: A Study of the Use of Animals In Science $10.00

ISBN 0-916288-22-6

Companion Book:

Dark Face of Science

Author: John Vyvyan

200 pages
paperback

Companion Book to In Pity and In Anger, continues the story of the Anti-vivisection movement from 1900 to the 1960's.

Unseen, beneath the quadrangle of many college campuses, in covert basements, animals live out lives of unendurable pain. Vyvyan did not spare the most exalted academic institutions criticism for this cruelty. "The standards of our most illustrious scientific institutions have remained at the level of hanging, drawing, and quartering."

Meet the great agitators who kept the protest against scientific barbarism alive: G.B. Shaw, Stephen Coleridge, Walter Robert Hadwen, and others, and read about The Brown Dog Riots which tore London apart for two years at the start of the twentieth century, when the sculpture of a brown dog terrier was erected in Battersea Park, with the inscription:

In Memory of the Brown Terrier
Dog done to Death in the Laboratories
of University College in February
1903, after having endured Vivisection
extending over more than two months
and having been handed from
one Vivisector to Another
till Death came to his Release
Also in memory of the 232 dogs Vivisected at the
same place during the year 1902. Men and women
of England, how long shall these things be?

Dark Face of Science $15.00