Vivisection (from Latin vivus 'alive' and sectio 'cutting') is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with...

– 9 February 1958) was a British medical doctor, barrister and anti-vivisection activist. Thomas was born in Dartmouth. He was educated at Taunton School...

Swedish-British feminist and animal rights advocate who became a prominent anti-vivisection activist in England in the early 20th century. Born to a distinguished...

anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection...

the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. In 2012, the BUAV joined with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society to establish a new international...

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is an international non-profit animal protection group, based in London, working to end animal testing, and...

whether vivisection has, on the whole, led to a decrease in suffering through the expansion of human knowledge. To Tait, any argument for vivisection should...

The Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society (ADAVS), also known as the Animal Defence Society was an animal welfare organisation, co-founded in England...

The Brown Dog affair was a political controversy about vivisection that raged in Britain from 1903 until 1910. It involved the infiltration of University...

secretary of the London Anti-Vivisection Society. Trist published numerous pamphlets and books advocating against vivisection and vaccination, notably circulating...

a British ophthalmologist who advocated for animal welfare and anti-vivisection. Estcourt-Oswald was born in 1874 in Peshawar. She graduated M.B., B...

The Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society was a Canadian anti-vivisection organization that gained support in the early 20th-century. The Society aimed to...

Villains (WTF) Uncaged Campaigns American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) Animal Free Research UK Anti-Vivisection Coalition (AVC) Center for Alternatives to...

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is a Jenkintown, Pennsylvania-based animal protectionism organization created with the goal of eliminating...

1916) was an American physician, social reformer, and vocal advocate for vivisection reform. Leffingwell authored many books bringing light to the cruel abuses...

Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS), the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)...

Battersea General Hospital (founded as The National Anti-Vivisection Hospital) known locally as the "Antiviv" or the "Old Anti," was a hospital in Battersea...

the Nazis. At the end of the nineteenth century, kosher butchering and vivisection (animal experimentation) were the main concerns of the German animal...

Rise for Animals (formerly New England Anti-Vivisection Society) is a national, registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit animal rights organization which aims to...

1854 – 11 February 1929) was an English naturalist, physician and anti-vivisection activist. Perks was born in June 1854. He was the eldest son of Henry...

dehydration, biological weapons testing, hypobaric pressure chamber testing, vivisection, organ harvesting, amputation, and standard weapons testing. Victims...

The Irish Times of his opposition to Trinity College Dublin's use of vivisection on animals for scientific research. He wrote: "I support the sentiments...

Opisthotonus or opisthotonos (from Ancient Greek: ὄπισθεν, romanized: opisthen, lit. 'behind' and τόνος, tonos, 'tension') is a state of severe hyperextension...

anti-vivisectionist. In 1866, his essay Vivisection: Is it Necessary or Justifiable? won an RSPCA prize. It was republished as Vivisection: A Prize Essay in 1871 by...

organisation was founded as the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, in 1911 by Netta and Elizabeth Ivory. It continues to work towards an...

of the National Anti-Vivisection Society. He was president of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. On vivisection, he commented that "our...

vivisection: Our Recent Debts to Vivisection (1885) Misstatements of Antivivisectionists (1901) The Progress of Surgery as Influenced by Vivisection (1901)...

The Anti-Vivisection Coalition (AVC) is a United Kingdom-based pressure group which campaigns against animal testing. The AVC are described as 'main driver'...

article "The Truth about Vivisection" for the Woman's Home Companion in July, 1921. In this article, Baynes supported vivisection and critiqued the arguments...

research, in vivo testing, and vivisection have similar denotations but different connotations. Literally, "vivisection" means "live sectioning" of an...