The Vivisector

Author: Patrick White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1436254620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
Join J. M. Coetzee and Thomas Keneally in rediscovering Nobel Laureate Patrick White Hurtle Duffield, a painter, coldly dissects the weaknesses of any and all who enter his circle. His sister's deformity, a grocer's moonlight indiscretion, the passionate illusions of the women who love him-all are used as fodder for his art. It is only when Hurtle meets an egocentric adolescent whom he sees as his spiritual child does he experience a deeper, more treacherous emotion in this tour de force of sexual and psychological menace that sheds brutally honest light on the creative experience. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Riders in the Chariot

Author: Patrick White
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590170024
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657

Book Description
Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed—and stricken—with visionary experiences that may or may not allow them to transcend the machinations of their fellow men. Tender and lacerating, pure and profane, subtle and sweeping, Riders in the Chariot is one of the Nobel Prize winner's boldest books.

Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain

Author: A.W.H. Bates
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137556978
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores the social history of the anti-vivisection movement in Britain from its nineteenth-century beginnings until the 1960s. It discusses the ethical principles that inspired the movement and the socio-political background that explains its rise and fall. Opposition to vivisection began when medical practitioners complained it was contrary to the compassionate ethos of their profession. Christian anti-cruelty organizations took up the cause out of concern that callousness among the professional classes would have a demoralizing effect on the rest of society. As the nineteenth century drew to a close, the influence of transcendentalism, Eastern religions and the spiritual revival led new age social reformers to champion a more holistic approach to science, and dismiss reliance on vivisection as a materialistic oversimplification. In response, scientists claimed it was necessary to remain objective and unemotional in order to perform the experiments necessary for medical progress.

Vivisection Or Science?

Author: Pietro Croce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
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Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1492

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The Tree of Man

Author: Patrick White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A King In Disguise

Author: Todd Hafer
Publisher: Worthy Inspired
ISBN: 1617955086
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Søren Kierkegaard's classic parable is the inspiration for a charming and imaginative tale of a prince who sets out to win the hand of the maiden he loves-and teaches us the extent of God's love for us.

The Herald of the Cross

Author: J. Todd Ferrier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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The Herald of the Cross. N.s

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Moral Authority, Men of Science, and the Victorian Novel

Author: Anne DeWitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110724515X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Nineteenth-century men of science aligned scientific practice with moral excellence as part of an endeavor to secure cultural authority for their discipline. Anne DeWitt examines how novelists from Elizabeth Gaskell to H. G. Wells responded to this alignment. Revising the widespread assumption that Victorian science and literature were part of one culture, she argues that the professionalization of science prompted novelists to deny that science offered widely accessible moral benefits. Instead, they represented the narrow aspirations of the professional as morally detrimental while they asserted that moral concerns were the novel's own domain of professional expertise. This book draws on works of natural theology, popular lectures, and debates from the pages of periodicals to delineate changes in the status of science and to show how both familiar and neglected works of Victorian fiction sought to redefine the relationship between science and the novel.