FPC
protested against the attendance of Somerville College
undergraduates at lectures by J. S. Burdon Sanderson
and E. Ray Lankester
, both supporters of vivisection.
French, Richard D. Antivivisection and Medical Science in Victorian Society. Princeton University Press.
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Timeline
1873: Publication of the two-volume Handbook for...
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1873
Publication of the two-volume Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory, the first English-language manual of its kind, inaugurated a period of increased antivivisectionist activity.
1883: J. S. Burdon Sanderson's election as Professor...
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1883
J. S. Burdon Sanderson
's election as Professor of Physiology at Oxford
prompted the most publicized nineteenth-century debate between anti-vivisectionists and the proponents of vivisection as an educational tool for studying medicine.
