Peter Hobbins

Venomous encounters

Snakes, vivisection and scientific medicine in colonial Australia

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of nineteenth-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781526101440
• ISBN-10: 1526101440
• Artikelnr.: 46489446

Autorenporträt

Peter Hobbins is Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Serpents and settlers: the colonial animal matrix
1788-1840 2. Vivisection in the pub: public spectacles and plebeian expertise
1840-80 3. Ontological conjunctions: dogs
snakes
venoms and germs
1843-68 4. In vivo veritas: the amoral ascent of colonial vivisection
1868-76 5. Legislators and other animals: foregrounding vivisection
1876-95 6. Immunology and indigeneity: species
serums and localisms
1890-1914 Conclusion Index