Bureaucracy of Empathy: Law, Vivisection, and Animal Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain

Contributor(s): Shmuely, Shira (Author)

ISBN: 9781501770395

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Binding Types:

Paperback

$34.95

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$47.90 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$46.70 (100+ copies: $45.95)

List/retail price:

$34.95

Pub Date: July 15, 2023

Dewey: 179.30941

LCCN: 2023000918

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.61" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.89 lbs) 270 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: "This book examines the implementation of the British Cruelty to Animals Act (1876) in its first three decades and analyzes how civil servants and scientists understood and co-constructed conceptions of animal pain"--

Review Quotes:

This is an important book that completes the historical understanding of the functioning of the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act in Britain.

-- "H-Net"

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