num_pages: 167
description: "Our aim is to tell a truth about modern society so shameful that it cannot be imparted in a felicitous style." That truth was the revelation about vivisection and what was taking place in the laboratories of all the civilized countries of the world. It is indeed a truth so shameful that John Vyvyan, an archeologist and lover of science, as well as a Shakespearean scholar, devoted the last years of his life to awakening the conscience of the world. However, his classic studies of vivisection and the Antivivisection movement are not diatribes, but social history enlivened by anecdotes and biographies of the leaders of the movement, particularly of the women who founded and led it. He judged vivisection as a modern moral disease, but also assessed the internal debates of the Antivivisection movement, as well as its singular altruism. It was to him, and remains, a movement convinced that "pity is a universal law, like justice."
language: English
title: In Pity and in Anger: A Study of the Use of Animals in Science.
titlecomplete: In Pity and in Anger: A Study of the Use of Animals in Science.
publisher: Transatlantic Arts