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

by John Vyvyan
introd. by Tom Regan

pbk.    180 pgs
ISBN: 0-916288-21-8

$10.00

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.

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.