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One Medicine: Animal Experiments and the Making of Modern Medical Science

Dig: A History Podcast

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Darwin's Role in the Anti-Vivisection Movement

Darwin was not particularly political. He really didn't even defend his own work. But he made an exception to his kind of a political principles for the anti vivisection movement. In 1875, Darwin himself helped to draft the play fair bill which required that all animals use an experimentation needed to be anesthetized.

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