Dog fight: Darwin as animal advocate in the antivivisection controversy of 1875

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 265-271

  Feller, David Allan ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal rights; Charles Darwin; Frances Power Cobbe; Thomas Henry Huxley; Vivisection

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149124205     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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