Science, Gender and the Exploitation of Animals in Britain Since 1945

ISBN-13: 9781138617537 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Catherine Duxbury

Opis

This book offers an historical analysis of the culture of animal-dependent science in Britain from 1945 to the present, exploring key areas of animal experimentation such as warfare, medical science, and law from a gendered perspective.

Spis treści

Introduction: Accounting for the More-Than-Human  Section One: Law, Animal Welfare and Gender  1. British Animal Experimentation Law since 1945: Property, Pastoral Power and Governmentality  2. The March of Thatcherism: Neoliberal Laboratory "Care" and the Assent of the ASPA, 1981-1986  3. The Power-Pain Nexus: How Women’s Subjugation Subtends Speciesism in the Legal System  Section Two: Scientific Intersections: The Practice of Animal Experimentation and Its Gendered Dimensions  4. Animal Experimentation at Porton Down: Britain’s Military-Animal-Industrial Complex, 1948-1955  5. Containing the Laboratory Animal: Laboratory Spaces and Gendered Places, 1947-Present  6. Anxious Animals, Monstrous Menstruating Women and the Science of Stress 1947-Present  Section Three: Conclusion: 21^st Century Compassion Fatigue  Conclusion

O autorze

Catherine Duxbury is a Visiting Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre in the School of Philosophy and Art History of the University of Essex, and a teacher at University Centre Colchester, Essex, UK.