Boddice Rob
Sonderforschungsbereich 640, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Mohrenstr. 40-41, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Isis. 2011 Jun;102(2):215-37. doi: 10.1086/660128.
Through an investigation of the public, professional, and private life of the Darwinian disciple George John Romanes, this essay seeks a better understanding of the scientific motivations for defending the practice of vivisection at the height of the controversy in late Victorian Britain. Setting aside a historiography that has tended to focus on the arguments of antivivisectionists, it reconstructs the viewpoint of the scientific community through an examination of Romanes's work to help orchestrate the defense of animal experimentation. By embedding his life in three complicatedly overlapping networks-the world of print, interpersonal communications among an increasingly professionalized body of scientific men, and the intimacies of private life-the essay uses Romanes as a lens with which to focus the physiological apprehension of the antivivisection movement. It is a story of reputation, self-interest, and affection.
通过对达尔文主义信徒乔治·约翰·罗曼斯的公众生活、职业生活和私人生活展开调查，本文旨在更深入地理解在维多利亚时代晚期英国争议达到顶峰时，为活体解剖行为进行辩护背后的科学动机。抛开以往倾向于关注反活体解剖者论点的史学研究，本文通过审视罗曼斯的著作来重构科学界的观点，以助力精心策划对动物实验的辩护。通过将他的生活嵌入三个复杂重叠的网络——印刷品世界、日益专业化的科学界人士之间的人际交流以及私人生活的亲密关系——本文以罗曼斯为透镜，聚焦反活体解剖运动的生理忧虑。这是一个关于声誉、私利和情感的故事。
