Great Testimony against scientific cruelty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Great Testimony against scientific cruelty, credited to Stephen Coleridge, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Great Testimony against scientific cruelty by Stephen Coleridge. Read in English by Jeffery Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often associated with PETA [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, founded in 1980], opposition to use of live animals in physiology research dates back several centuries. Animal experimentation was particularly decried before the development of anesthesia. This book briefly describes the personal histories of twelve prominent critics of live experimentation in 19th century England. - Summary by JefferySmith

Recording facts

• Recording title: Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
• Author credits: Stephen Coleridge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 14
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:48

Catalogue topics

• animal rights
• vivisection
• animal cruelty

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 5:27
2. 01 - The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury — 6:29
3. 02 - Miss Frances Power Cobbe — 8:51
4. 03 - Cardinal Manning Vice President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society — 6:42
5. 04 - Robert Browning Vice President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society — 6:34
6. 05 - Lord Coleridge Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society — 8:25
7. 06 - John Ruskin — 18:05
8. 07 - Dr. Johnson — 7:17
9. 08 - Thomas Carlyle Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society — 4:29
10. 09 - Tennyson Vice-President of the National Anti-Vivisection Society — 3:55
11. 10 - Cardinal Newman — 7:54
12. 11 - Three Great Churchmen — 5:00
13. 12 - Queen Victoria — 3:52
14. 13 - Compassed About With So Great a Cloud of Witnesses — 4:49

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