London's anti-vivisection hospitals 1896-1935. (360G-Wellcome-104505_Z_14_Z)

£42,000

London's anti-vivisection hospitals were created to cater for the needs of patients who disapproved of vivisection and vivisectionists. Whether animal experimentation was a productive mode of scientific enquiry was held to be secondary to its moral perils: those who vivisected showed themselves too hard-hearted to be good doctors. Thus patients who attended an anti-vivisection hospital might receive better treatment overall if staff were more compassionate and respectful of patient autonomy. Unp ublished hospital archives and other sources will be used to build up a picture of the work of Londons anti-vivisection hospitals and the financial difficulties that led them to abandon their antivivisection principles. Were their ideals popular with patients but thwarted by opposition from mainstream practitioners committed to advancing the cause of scientific medicine, or were they a non-viable concern that had to be sustained by donations from patrons whose views they promoted? The study will examine the conflict between utilitarianism and virtue ethics. Was the morally virtuous doctor no longer a significant concept in the early-twentieth century or had the nature of virtue changed from personal integrity to public service?

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 42000
Applicant Surname Bates
Approval Committee ERG11 Society and Ethics
Award Date 2014-05-13T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2013/14
Grant Programme: Title Personal Support: Inactive Scheme
Internal ID 104505/Z/14/Z
Lead Applicant Dr Alan Bates
Partnership Value 42000
Planned Dates: End Date 2015-03-21T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2014-09-22T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London