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Mingay, Philip Frederick James. "Vivisectors and the vivisected, the painter figure in the postcolonial novel." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60328.pdf.
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Montgomery, Brooke. "Those candid and ingenuous vivisectors, Frances Power Cobbe and the anti-vivisection controversy in Victorian Britain, 1870-1904." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ55275.pdf.
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Levitt, Gail Ann. "Four cultural influences on anti-vivisection propaganda literature, 1875-1910." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403195.
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Halverson, Kristin. "Physiological Cruelty? : Discussing and Developing Vivisection in Great Britain, 1875-1901." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30336.
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This thesis examines the development of vivisection as a method of physiological research between 1875 and 1901 in Great Britain, by examining some of the arguments, discussions, and ideas put forth by physiologists for the utilisation of vivisection in their research. Because this study operates within the context of medical history, questions of legitimacy, scientific development, and professional image are lifted. The development of vivisection during this period took place with a larger shift in scientific practice playing out in the background, where experimentalism began overtaking the previously more analytical approach to medicine and the sciences. The First Royal Commission on Vivisection in 1875 marks the beginning of this study, and the discussions within allow for a more nuanced picture of the professional debates on the practice, where both proponents and sceptics at times found common ground. Technological and societal aspects were central to much of the argumentation for the further development of vivisection, with technology easing the practical aspects of the method, and the concept of the "gentleman" allowing British "vivisectors" to argue against charges of cruelty, pointing rather to continental schools of physiology as the culprits, whilst lifting the "humanity" behind animal experimentation in Great Britain. In conjunction with pointing out the importance of the method for the development of medical science, the Cruelty to Animals Act and the lobbying on behalf of the professional journals British Medical Journal and The Lancet helped legitimise the practice in Great Britain. The Act allowed vivisection under set circumstances, and the two journals served as megaphones for scientific development on behalf of vivisection, at times even openly criticising sceptical opinions. At the same time, some saw experimental research through vivisection as merely one aspect of medical practice. One which needed to gain foothold in order to help advance medical science for the larger benefit of all humanity.
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Loveridge, Ann. "Historical, fictional and illustrative readings of the vivisected body, 1873-1913." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2017. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/16756/.
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This thesis analyses why the practice of vivisection captured the imagination of a small section of late-Victorian society, and how these individuals articulated their concerns. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study brings together the texts of both anti and pro-vivisectionists to place literary texts alongside medical textbooks and illustrations, essays and campaigning leaflets to suggest a representation of the vivisector throughout the different texts assembled. The first chapter explores the interaction, in print, between activist Frances Power Cobbe and physiologist, Elie de Cyon alongside the ways in which the antivivisectionists used images of vivisected animals, sourced from scientific manuals, to assist in constructing the movement’s identity. The second chapter analyses the lecture notes of two young medical students published as The Shambles of Science (1903) and how the authors strived to secure a literary representation for pain. These findings will then pave the way for an examination of how anti-vivisection rhetoric influenced fiction. The next chapter is concerned with the relationship between the ‘heart’ and ‘science’ and considers the more positive outcomes for those existing on the periphery of scientific experimentation. The fourth chapter examines the relationship between vivisection and hydrophobia, while simultaneously considering the implications of nurturing the young vivisector. The final chapter examines how the signature of the vivisectionist can be read through the incisions made on the surface of the opened body. By delving into these interactive, textual and imaginative bodies, this chapter explores the ways in which the vivisected body, traced by the scalpel and relayed by the instrumentation of the laboratory became a literary object.
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Kluveld-Reijerse, Amanda Alwien. "Reis door de hel der onschuldigen de expressieve politiek van de Nederlandse anti-vivisectionisten, 1890-1940 /." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1999. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6873.
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Bory, Jean-Yves. "Science et patience : la polémique sur la vivisection au XIXe siècle en France." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0128.
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Cette thèse étudie la pratique de la vivisection au XIXe siècle en France et les polémiques qu'elle a engendrées. La vivisection, action de découper l'animal vivant dans un but scientifique, s'est imposée comme pratique scientifique professionnelle et même comme paradigme. En 1880 le paradigme était installé et institutionnalisé. Les protestations ont existé d'abord dans les milieux scientifiques, puis chez les médecins publicistes, les protecteurs des animaux et enfin dans le grand public organisé en associations. Elles ont culminé au début des années 1880 mais le mouvement antivivisectionniste a été anéanti par la polémique sur la rage. Il a resurgi vers 1900 et a été stoppé par la guerre. Deux sortes de vivisecteurs peuvent être distinguées: les extrémistes, partisans de la liberté totale d'usage des animaux, et les modérés, appelant à une retenue. Les extrémistes ont remporté une victoire totale grâce à des facteurs sociaux, culturels et politiques plutôt que scientifiques. Les antivivisectionnistes faisaient partie d'un autre paradigme, opposé à celui des vivisecteurs sur la question de la douleur animale, et non sur la science. La polémique sur la vivisection fut un affrontement de valeursThis thesis is about vivisection and his controversies in XIXth French century. Vivisection action of cutting animals in scientific purpose, became a professional practice and a paradigm during XIXth century. The paradigm was established in 1880. First protests were in scientific community, next in medicine publications, at the protectors of animals, finally in organized associations. Antivivisectionist movement reached its peak in early 1880 but disappeared because the controversy about. Rabies. It come back toward 1900. There were two kinds of vivisectors: extremists, who claimed total liberty in the use of animals, and moderates who wanted a limitation. Extremists have won because social, cultural and politic factors rather than scientific ones. Antivivisectionists were from another paradigm, opposed to vivisectors about animal suffering and not about scientific considerations. Controversy about vivisection was about values
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McPherson, Neil G. "Destabilising the discourse of vivisection : a Foucauldian archaeology/genealogy of human/nonhuman animal association." Thesis, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517688.
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Building on the theoretical/methodological approach to history and historical investigation evident in the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis takes the form of an archaeology/genealogy of human/nonhuman animal association, placing a particular focus on the practice of vivisection. The first chapter examines the theoretical/methodological approach taken by Foucault in his archaeological and genealogical analyses. It outlines the theoretical and methodological tools that Foucault provides, and locates the research within a coherent analytical framework consistent with a Foucauldian analysis. Chapters two, three and four constitute an archaeological investigation of the way in which the human/nonhuman animal relationship has been constructed in the Western world within the conditions of possibility of knowledge in the Renaissance, Classical and Modem ages. The historical a priori conditions of the three epistemic formations are examined and the construction of the association between man and the nonhuman animal and the practice of vivisection is considered within each. Chapter five develops the archaeological investigation of the historical formation of human/nonhuman animal association and the practice of vivisection by using Foucault's genealogy of the Modem penal system as a backdrop to a genealogical analysis of the dispotif of Modem vIvIsection. The historical discourse that locates the human/nonhuman relationship within a progressivist construct of humanist reform and rational scientific development is disturbed and the historicised justification for the use of the nonhuman animal in the practice of vivisection undermined through the decentring of man as the foundational freethinking subject of knowledge. The thesis shows that the contemporary historical discourse surrounding human/nonhuman animal association and the practice of vivisection can be rethought and reconstructed by considering it within an analytical construct liberated from the transcendento-empirical constraints of conventional history. This discourse, which legitimises the practice of nonhuman animal vivisection as a result of its apparent potential to advance medicine's ability to cure disease, is destabilised, and a counter memory constructed that identifies vivisection as a mechanism of surveillance used to discipline the human population. As such, the thesis constitutes an alternative history of human/nonhuman animal association and the practice of vivisection, one that allows them to be spoken of and thought of in a different way. The counter memory produced opens up a space from which political resistance to the contemporary practice of vivisection can emerge, free from the anthropological constraints of the Modern age.
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Shmuely, Shira Dina. "The bureaucracy of empathy : vivisection and the question of animal pain in Britain, 1876-1912." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113945.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation examines the mutually reinforcing connections between science and law and their construction of pain in British regulation of animal experimentation. It investigates the Home Office's implementation of the Cruelty to Animals Act (1876), the first effort anywhere in the world to impose legal restrictions on vivisection, during the three decades following its enactment. The study ends in 1912 with the findings of a second Royal Commission that evaluated the workings of the Act. The Commission reaffirmed many of the Home Office polices regarding vivisection and their underlying premises. The Act mandated official supervision of scientific experiments that "calculated to give pain" to animal subjects. Implementing the Act therefore necessitated the identification and quantification of pain. This requirement created what I term the "bureaucracy of empathy," an attempt to systemize the understanding of animal suffering through administrative mechanisms. Practicing empathy was integral to some bureaucratic tasks, for example, attaching the right certificate to an inoculation experiment. Additionally, various factors including legal settings and scientific knowledge informed and situated this empathy with animals, when, for instance, an inspector drafted a report about mutilated monkeys while visiting a physiology laboratory. My analysis unravels that defining animal pain was often intertwined with the definition of an experiment. Law and science co-constitution of pain and experiments conditioned both the daily work of administering the law and the practices of experimenters. This dynamic led to the adoption of technologies such as anesthesia and pain scoring models, which provided legal-medical means to control pain in research and to ostensibly create a cruelty free experimental fact. A new pain-based ethical order was established, designed by law officers, civil servants, and court judges as much as by physiologists, remaking the relationships between experimenters, state representatives, and laboratory animals.
by Shira Dina Shmuely.
Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS)
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Dirke, Karin. "De värnlösas vänner : [den svenska djurskyddsrörelsen 1875-1920]." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Avdelningen för idéhistoria, 2000. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-81144.
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The subject of this thesis is the Swedish animal welfare movement, its origin and early development 1875-1920. The first national Swedish animal welfare society was formed in Stockholm 1875. It was soon followed by other associations for the protection of animals. The animal welfare movement grew rapidly in Sweden. Not until towards the 1920s did the membership decline. The material studied in this thesis consists of a broad variety of documents from the animal welfare societies, such as journals and books as well as children's stories and parliamentary publications. The aim is to study both the origins and early development in Sweden of societies for the protection of animals, wild and domestic, during the decades around the turn of the century. The Swedish debates on animal welfare laws are of interest as well as discussions about vivisection and slaughter. The aim is to provide a wider analysis by taking various ideas and groups of people, such as veterinarians, schoolteachers and women into account.
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Kramer, Molly Baer. "A more humane society : animal welfare and human nature in England, 1950-1976." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722570.
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Carvalho, André Luis de Lima. "Além dos confins do homem: Frances Power Cobbe contra o Darwinismo na controvérsia sobre a vivissecção no Reino Unido (1863-1904)." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FIOCRUZ, 2010. http://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/15966.
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
O presente trabalho procura explorar as complexas interações entre Darwinismo, fisiologia experimental e antivivisseccionismo na Inglaterra Vitoriana. Como principais personagens encarregadas de conduzir essa narrativa foram eleitos Charles Darwin e a antivivisseccionista Frances Power Cobbe, mas vários darwinistas, fisiologistas e antivivisseccionistas também aparecem nas páginas dessa tese. Outra importante personagem desse estudo é o cão, animal de status privilegiado na Inglaterra, mas que ainda assim foi usado abundantemente nos laboratórios fisiológicos, e procuro explorar as implicações da presença desse animal na mesa de vivissecção. Os eixos temáticos nos quais meu estudo se apoiou foram: 1) a tese darwiniana da origem comum e consequente relação de continuidade mental entre animais e humanos, e as implicações éticas dessa teoria; 2) o problema da dor física e do sofrimento emocional na Inglaterra vitoriana e sua abordagem por Darwin e Cobbe; 3) a noção de crueldade, e sua associação à prática de vivissecção; 4) a faculdade da simpatia, e a noção darwiniana de uma simpatia para além dos confins do homem , relacionada ao conceito atual de comunidade moral. Explorando o contexto sócio-cultural e a produção de discursos favoráveis e contrários à experimentação animal do período, realizei também uma incursão nas estratégias retóricas de autodefinição e definição do adversário pelas duas partes em contenda, incluindo as formas como era retratado o laboratório fisiológico. (AU)
This work intends to investigate the complex interactions between Darwinism, experimental physiology and antivivisectionism in Victorian England. The main characters chosen to convey this narratives were Charles Darwin and Frances Power Cobbe, but several other Darwinists, physiologists and antivivisectionists are also present in the following pages. Another important character of this study is the dog, an animal of special status in England, but that even so was often used in physiological laboratories; I try to explore the implications of the presence of this animal in the vivisection table. The main themes of my study were: 1) the Darwinian thesis of common descent and the consequent relationship of mental continuity between animals and humans, as well as the ethical implications of this theory; 2) the problem of physical pain and emotional suffering in Victorian England, and how Darwin and Cobbe explored this subject; 3) the notion of cruelty, and its association to vivisection; 4) the faculty of sympathy, and the Darwinian notion of a “sympathy beyond the confines of man”, related to the current concept of moral community. By exploring the social and cultural context and the production of discourses for and against animal experimentation from the period, I tried to investigate the rhetorical strategies of self-definition and definition of the opponent by both parties of the debate; this includes the way the physiological laboratory was depicted by each one of these parties. (AU)
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Lombard, Chereé. "Animal welfare and the law : towards legal regulation of the welfare of laboratory animals in South Africa / Chereé Lombard." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8718.
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The current legal framework pertaining to animals does not sufficiently address the welfare of animals. The Animal Protection Act 71 of 1962 does not specifically regulate the welfare of animals contained in research laboratories. Animals utilized for experimental research purposes endure tremendous “unnecessary suffering” due to legislative inaptitude. Experimental animals suffer inherent abuses associated with experimental research because of the methods, procedures and processes relevant to the experiments. The most controversial method of experimental research is vivisection. The method of vivisection is not only invasive but also causes “unnecessary suffering” to animals. The non-inherent abuses animals suffer during confinement in a laboratory solely relates to uncontrolled and unregulated conduct of staff.
Continuing the application of the current legislative framework may also be detrimental to the health and well-being of humans. Animals are specifically utilized as objects of science in research laboratories. The data obtained from research experiments conducted on animals are for the benefit of humankind rather than the animals. Scientific research concluded that not only are invasive methods of research conducted on live animals generally regarded as useless but extrapolating data from animals to humans can also be misleading, unnecessary and dangerous. False results and questionable methodologies are some of the other problems that seem to require urgent attention. Ethically, neither human nor animal should be utilized at the expense of the other and therefore it would be reasonable to recommend that legislative reform takes place.
The human perception of animals in terms of the relationship we have with them is the reason why legislative inaptitude in terms of animal welfare exists. The current approach followed is the philosophy of Utilitarianism. Utilitarians believe that neither humans nor animals have rights but interests. Utilitarianism focuses on the permissibility of an act (the use of animals) by weighing the benefits of such an act to the costs suffered because of such act. If the benefits outweigh the costs suffered, the act is permissible. The application of Utilitarianism seems to be the crux of our legislative inaptitude. The human perception and view of animals must therefore be re-directed to develop a sufficient legal framework in terms of animal welfare. A solution offered is to apply an alternative interpretation to the concept of “dignity” (capabilities approach) and progressive realisation. In terms of this solution a species capabilities in terms of its value, capabilities and worth are considered. Inherent to its value, capabilities and worth, is its “dignity”. Once the alternative interpretation of “dignity” is acknowledged, the progressive realisation of its interests can be achieved.Thesis (LLM)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013
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Smith, Jeffrey Wayne. "George MacDonald and Victorian society." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/7e0872ad-8765-4fd9-9942-53ff0b6c25e3.
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This thesis approaches the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as discussions on his non-fictional texts and essays, industrialism, and the great rural-urban divide of the nineteenth century. Chapter Two concentrates on MacDonald’s representations of the city in Robert Falconer (1868), The Vicar’s Daughter (1872), and Weighed and Wanting (1882) by underscoring parallels between Octavia Hill’s housing and environmental schemes and situations which he experienced firsthand. Chapter Three examines the influence of Nature on MacDonald’s theology and social views. Special emphasis is placed on Wordsworth and the development of MacDonald’s unique pantheism in his texts, such as the short story, ‘A Journey Rejourneyed’ (1865-6), Guild Court (1868), Wilfrid Cumbermede (1872), What’s Mine’s Mine (1886), and Home Again (1887). Chapter Four uncovers MacDonald’s involvement with the animal welfare movement during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Discussions on vivisection, vegetarianism, hunting, animal abuse, evolution, and degeneration are provided with a wide range of MacDonald’s texts, such as Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865), Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), The Marquis of Lossie (1877), A Rough Shaking (1890), and Heather and Snow (1893). Chapter Five offers a short summation of the thesis. It affirms that MacDonald was deeply troubled by certain social issues that were raised within his society and would use his fiction to express his concerns. The conclusion also offers a few suggestive topics for ongoing research in the field of this thesis.
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Karlsson, Fredrik. "Weighing Animal Lives : A Critical Assessment of Justification and Prioritization in Animal-Rights Theories." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Uppsala Universitet, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018853676&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Zilio, Carolina Hernandes. "Utilização de animais vivos na educação : compreensões históricas e reflexões complexas." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2014.
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Orientador: Prof. Dr. Daniel PansarelliDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino, História, Filosofia das Ciências e Matemática, 2014.
Nesta pesquisa, de caráter bibliográfico e teórico com subsídios históricos, buscamos explicitar a origem da vivissecção enquanto prática científica instaurada academicamente. Encontramos no positivismo o fundamento epistemológico que legitimou a vivissecção e a utilização de animais vivos em pesquisas diversas, inclusive no ensino superior. Partindo de uma breve exposição de diversas formas de usos de animais, que vão desde a indústria bélica até o ensino, uma incursão nos pensamentos de Auguste Comte e de Claude Bernard permitiu-nos explicitar traços positivistas em tais práticas. Passamos, então, a provocações inspiradas no pensamento complexo, especialmente em Edgar Morin, com vistas a problematizar o estado atual de crises em que se encontram os fundamentos teóricos positivistas.
In this bibliographical and theoretical historically subsidized research, we seek to enlighten the origin of vivisection as an academically established scientific practice. We can find in the positivism the epistemological grounds that legitimated the vivisection and the use of live animals in several studies, including in higher education. Starting from a brief exposure of various forms of animal uses ranging from the defense industry to education, an incursion in the thoughts of Auguste Comte and Claude Bernard has enabled us to reveal positivist traits in such practices. They are followed by complex thought-inspired provocations especially as seen in Edgar Morin, in order to discuss the current state of crisis in which the theoretical positivist foundations find themselves in.
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Dardenne, Émilie. "Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) : militante victorienne : deux causes, un engagement." Rennes 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003REN20020.
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Polémiste infatigable et aguerrie, la militante victorienne Frances Power Cobbe consacra son énergie à l'extension des droits des femmes et au refus de voir des animaux torturés au nom de la recherche scientifique. Elle y engagea inlassablement sa plume à partir des années 1860 et jusqu'à sa mort en 1904. Comment en est-elle arrivée à s'engager de manière aussi visible et à mettre en regard ces deux questions en apparence étrangères ? L'assujettissement des femmes et la vivisection des animaux présentent en effet dans son discours des similitudes qu'il convient d'explorer, notamment dans la dénonciation de la médecine victorienne qu'elle estime hégémonique, dans l'analyse des codes linguistiques, ainsi que dans l'exaltation des valeurs de justice et de compassion. Fondés sur une dénonciation morale de comportements et de principes jugés rétrogrades, les arguments avancés par Frances Power Cobbe nous frappent à la fois par leur caractère profondément victorien et par leur originalitéTireless and seasoned controversialist, the Victorian activist Frances Power Cobbe devoted her time and energy to the promotion of women's rights and to the fight against animal experimentation in scientific research. She unflaggingly committed her name and her pen to these two causes from the 1860s up until her death in 1904. How can we explain this involvement ? How did she end up confronting these two apparently unrelated issues ? Indeed, in her discourse, the subjection of women and the vivisection of animals reveal salient similarities which deserve further study ; notably in her exposure of the new Victorian medicine considered hegemonic, in her analysis of linguistic codes, as well as in her exaltation of justice and compassion. Based on the moral denunciation of principles and attitudes which she considers reactionary, the arguments formulated by Frances Power Cobbe strike us by their profoundly Victorian character and by their mere originality
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Plush, Vincent Patrick. "Music in the life and work of Patrick White." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/113616.
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Arguably, Patrick White (1912-1990) is Australia’s best known and most celebrated writer.
In a working life spanning almost seven decades, he produced twelve novels, eight
produced plays, three books of short stories and several collections of poetry, as well as
several film scripts (only one of which was produced during his lifetime), countless essays
and possibly around 5,500 letters.
This study traces the role of music in White’s life, and details the extent to which music
played a part in his literary praxis, both at the narrative level, and as a structural
framework. A survey of White’s exposure to, and subsequent embrace of music over the
course of his life is followed by a critical overview the extent to which music shaped four
significant works. These case studies comprise three published novels – The Aunt’s Story
(1948), Voss (1957) and The Vivisector (1970) – as well as an unpublished film script – The
Monkey Puzzle (1978). Together, they represent four distinct periods of his creative life and
exemplify not simply the growing importance of music in his creativity, but the maturation
of his musical tastes and knowledge of music.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, 2018
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Grivas, Rebecca. "An examination of emotion-based strategies in ’altruistic’ mobilisation: a case study of the animal rights movement." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/49884.
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This thesis examines the emotion-based strategies employed by activists for the purpose of persuading individuals to participate directly in social movements. In particular, the emphasis is placed on getting people involved in ‘altruistic’ mobilisation; a descriptive utilised in order to distinguish these movements from previous research done in which a tangible material gain is presented as an inducement for participation. The thesis investigates the animal rights movement as it pertains to the issue of animal vivisection, and endeavours to identify the linguistic strategies employed by these activists with the goal of understanding how to facilitate ‘altruistic’ movements more generally. A textual analysis, which was consistent with Halliday’s (2004) systemic functional linguistics, was conducted on mobilisation pamphlets written by groups seeking support for either animal vivisection or animal rights. To this end, the analysis considered both the original movement (i.e. the anti-vivisection movement) and the counter-movement (i.e. the pro-research movement). The analysis considers the linguistic and visual strategies used by movement organisers in placing a moral onus on the reader to support the movement. From this analysis it is argued that the success of the animal rights movement stems from its ability to present graphic visual imagery that supplies evidential support for the claims being made in text. In addition, the animal rights texts have been able to frame the issue of animal vivisection in terms of emotional appeals designed to elicit feelings of moral outrage in the reader. It is posited that the animal rights movement has been able to effectively combine images and emotion-based linguistic strategies in order to facilitate the consideration of the issue in terms of an ‘ethical identity’ that helps generate moral outrage in the reader and thereby encouraging participation in the movement.http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1339773
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Psychology and School of Humanities, 2008