1.Introduction Nicolaas Rupke Experimental Physiology and the Vivisection Dilemma 2. Animal Experimentation from Antiquity to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Attitudes and Arguments Andreas-Holger Maehle and Ulrich Tröhler 3. Vivisection and the Emergence of Experimental Physiology in Nineteenth-century France Paul Elliott 4. Marshall Hall (1790-1857): Vivisection and the Development of Experimental Physiology Diana Manuel 5. Moritz Schiff (1823-96): Experimental Physiology and Noble Sentiment in Florence Patrizia Guarnieri 6. Vicarious Suffering, Necessary Pain: Physiological Method in Late Nineteenth-century Britain Stewart Richards Vivisection Debates in National Context 7. Anti-vivisection in Nineteenth-century Germany and Switzerland: Motives and Methods Ulrich Tröhler and Andreas-Holger Maehle 8.

Pro-vivisection in England in the Early 1880s: Arguments and Motives Nicolaas Rupke 9. The Vivisection Debate in Sweden in the 1880s Lennart Bromander 10. The Controversy over Animal Experimentation in America, 1880-1914 Susan E. Lederer Special Aspects of the Vivisection Controversy 11. Women and Anti-Vivisection in Victorian England, 1870-1900 Mary Ann Elston 12. Cinema Vérité: The Image of William Harvey's Experiments in 1928 Christopher Lawrence 13. Legislation: A Practical Solution to the Vivisection Dilemma? Judith Hampson 14. A Select Iconography of Animal Experiment William Schupbach 15.

Epilogue Sir William Paton.